LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 

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PRESENTED BY 



UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 

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Logan 






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COMMISSIONERS 



HENRY W. BLODGETT. 
WILLIAM C. GOUDY* 
ROBERT T. LINCOLN 
WILLIAM H. HARPER 
JOHN R. WALSH 
WILLIAM S. MORRIS 



RICHARD S. TUTHILL 
JOHN M. PALMER 
MILTON HAY* 
MELVILLE W. FULLER 
OLIVER A. HARKER 
GEORGE W. SMITH 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

HENRY W. BLODGETT 
ROBERT T. LINCOLN 
RICHARD S. TUTHILL 
JOHN R. WALSH 
WILLIAM H. HARPER 



* Deceased 



CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Introduction ....... 7 

Biographical Sketch of John A. Logan . . 27 
The Monument and the Sculptor ... 37 

LORADO Taft 

The Unveiling ....... 45 

Invocation ....... 47 

Rev. Dr. Arthur Edwards 

Presentation by the Commission . . 53 

Henry W. Blodgett 

Acceptance for the State .... 63 
Governor John R. Tanner 

Oration ....... 73 

George R. Peck 

The Parade . . . . . . . gi 



Introduction 



The death of General Logan in December, 

1886, was quickly followed by a determination 
to perpetuate his memory and to express fit- 
tingly the love and honor in which he was 
held by the people of his state. It fell to the 
lot of William H. Harper, of Chicago, to take 
the first step in this direction. Mr. Harper, 
on his return from the funeral of General 
Logan in Washington, conceived the idea that 
the state of Illinois should erect a statue of 
the third hero whom she had presented to the 
country, and thus enroll permanently along 
with the names of Lincoln and of Grant that 
of their worthy comrade, John A. Logan. 

A bill was accordingly drawn up, and, largely 
through the efforts of Hon. Chas. E. Fuller, 
the Republican leader of the house, it was 
passed by the general assembly in January, 

1887. By this bill, $50,000 was appropriated, 
and a commission of twelve, old friends and 
associates of General Logan, was named to 
erect a monument in Chicago. Two members 
of this Commission, Milton Hay and William 

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C. Goudy, died before the completion of its 
work, and their places were not filled. The 
other members were : 

Henry W. Blodgett Melville W, Fuller 

Robert T. Lincoln John R. Walsh 

John M. Palmer Oliver A. Harker 

Richard S. Tuthill William A. Morris 

William H. Harper George W. Smith 

On February 12, 1887, the Commissioners 
met and organized by electing the following 
officers : Henry W. Blodgett, president ; John 
R. Walsh, treasurer, and Richard S. Tuthill, 
secretary. Later an executive committee was 
chosen, consisting of the officers of the Com- 
mission with the addition of William H. Harper 
and Robert T. Lincoln. 

The important questions of the site of the 
proposed monument and of the sculptor of 
the statue were long and carefully considered. 
The first was settled in favor of the location 
generously offered by the South Park com- 
missioners, who likewise contributed, at a total 
cost of nearly $14,000, the foundation of the 
monument. The even more weighty problem 
of the choice of a sculptor was solved in Sep- 
tember, 1888, by the selection of Augustus 
St. Gaudens, a choice justified in advance 
by his supreme reputation among American 



artists and in the result by the best among 
the many excellent statues of the city. 

At the session of the general assembly in 
January, 1889, the money, appropriated two 
years before, was reappropriated, an action 
necessary under the constitution of the state. 
The magnitude of the work devolving on 
the Commission may be best seen in the 
years which elapsed before the completion 
of its task. Many minor, but important 
questions arose from time to time, all of 
which were successfully settled, and finally, 
in May, 1897, the Executive Committee settled 
on July 22 for the day of the unveiling and 
appointed William H. Harper chairman of a 
committee of arrangements. With due con- 
sideration -of the duties of this committee, 
it was determined that it should include 
a number of the ablest and most repre- 
sentative men of Chicago. On them would 
be placed the responsibility, not merely of 
crowning the work of the Commission in 
unveiling the statue erected by its efforts, but 
of making Logan Day, as it came fittingly to 
be called, not only a city, but a state, and 
almost a national, holiday, on which Americans 
laight honor in General Logan the memories 
of a great struggle and the self-sacrificing 



devotion of hundreds of thousands of his fel- 
low-volunteers. 

The Committee on Arrangements was ac- 
cordingly appointed to include the following : 



William H. Harper, 
Chairman 



J. H. Wood, 
Vice- Chairman 



R, T. Perry, 
Secretary 



Carter H. Harrison 
R. H. Hall 
John C. Black 
Joseph Stockton 
RoBT. N. Pearson 
John C. Smith 
J. N, Reece 
H. A. Wheeler 
H. L. Turner 
Geo. M. Moulton 
Marcus Kavanagh 
James A. Sexton 
Robert C. Clowry 
a. l. schimpff 
f. w. buskirk 
Thomas E. Young 
J. Hodgkins 



E. A. Blodgett 
L. B, Mitchell 
James L. High 
J. S. Dunham 
Francis A. Riddle 
Chas. G. Dawes 
Chas. E. Fuller 
Melville E. Stone 
A. J. Earling 
William A. Alexander 
E. G. Pauling 
Jesse Holdom 
Edward F. Cragin 
William P. Williams 
Wm. H. Crocker 
J. H. Strong 
J. P. Sherwin 



To facilitate the work of this committee, 
various subcommittees were selected, and to 
the energies of these, largely augmented by 
the untiring efforts of Mr. Harper, chairman of 
the Committee on Arrangements, the success 



of the unveiling must largely be attributed. 
The Committee on Finance consisted of John 
R. Walsh, Carter H. Harrison, H. A. Wheeler, 
Charles G. Dawes, E. F, Cragin, J. T. Dickin- 
son, and J. H. Strong. Through their efforts 
a fund was raised, which, in conjunction with 
the interest on the state appropriation, paid 
the expenses of the day, the state appropria- 
tion going as a whole in payment of the statue 
itself. The subscriptions thus raised amounted 
to nearly ^5,000, and the interest allowed on 
money deposited to a like amount. The entire 
expenses of the Commission were nearly 
^74,000 : viz., ^50,000 from the state for the 
statue, $14,000 from the South Park commis- 
sioners for the pedestal and foundation, and 
the above g 10,000, approximately, for the 
expenses of July 22. 

Since the plans for Logan Day included the 
presence of a large number of state and fed- 
eral troops, and of tens of thousands of other 
visitors, the securing of transportation cour- 
tesies was highly desirable, and this duty was 
assigned to a subcommittee made up of J. H. 
Wood, F. W. Buskirk, and George M. Moul- 
ton. The efficiency of these gentlemen was 
evident in the outcome, and was heartily sec- 
onded by the railway and steamship lines, 
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whose generous cooperation helped to make 
Logan Day an event, not merely for the city, 
but for many visitors from the rest of Illinois 
and from neighboring states. 

Among many striking features of the 22d 
of July, the imposing parade of nearly seven- 
teen thousand men will long remain in mem- 
ory. Two thousand United States troops, six 
thousand of the National Guard of Illinois, 
five thousand of the Grand Army of the Repub- 
lic, thousands of Knights Templar and Knights 
of Pythias, and more in number than a full 
regiment of the post-office employes, partici- 
pated in the parade. The general arrangements 
were made by Joseph Stockton, J. N. Reece, 
and Joseph A. Sexton. The Subcommittee 
on Military Organizations — H. A. Wheeler, 
R. H. Hall, Marcus Kavanagh, and J. L. High 
— secured through the courtesy of the Secretary 
of War and of the governor of Illinois the pres- 
ence of the state and federal contingents. The 
cordial assistance of the commander-in-chief, 
T. S. Clarkson, was offered the Committee 
on the Grand Army of the Republic, which 
included A. L. Schimpff, C. A. Partridge, John 
C. Black, Robert N. Pearson, L. B. Mitchell, 
and E. A. Blodgett. The Committee on the 
Knights Templar and the Knights of Pythias, 



who formed so striking a part of the parade, 
was composed of J. P. Sherwin, T. E. Young, 
W. H. Crocker, and John C. Smith. 

Sharing with the parade itself the interest of 
thousands of visitors and giving to the unveil- 
ing a most effective background, the naval 
display on Logan Day will not soon be for- 
gotten. In this again the committee — J. S. 
Dunham, J G. Keith, and W. M Egan — found 
ready support, first of all in the courtesy of 
the Secretary of the Treasury, Hon. Lyman 
J. Gage, himself a citizen of Chicago, who 
ordered the presence of the revenue cutters, 
and then in the owners of scores of yachts, 
sloops, and schooners, of which the graceful 
outlines, gay with flags and bunting, gave a 
finishing touch to the beauty of the display. 

The securing of entertainment for the guests 
of the day was intrusted to another committee, 
including W. A. Alexander, Jesse Holden, Wil- 
liam P. Williams, E. G. Paulding, and J. H. 
Strong. Ever hospitable, the people of the 
city showed themselves doubly so on this occa- 
sion, and especially the great hotels, whose 
managers were foremost in a whole-souled 
cooperation with the Commissioners. 

A committee, of which Thomas B. Bryan 
was chairman, was appointed to receive Mrs. 
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Logan and her family, and the other guests, 
with fitting honors. Its members were : 



John R. Brooke 
Shelby M. Cullom 
Wm. E. Mason 
P. S. Grosscup 
Charles B. Farwell 
Wm. Sooy Smith 
W. J. Calhoun 
F. W. Peck 

H. N. HiGINBOTHAM 

h. h. kohlsaat 
Kirk Hawes 
A. L. Chetlain 
Marvin Hughitt 
Martin J. Russell 
Wm. Penn Nixon 
John McArthur 
E. A. Otis 
R. W. Patterson 
GusTAVus F. Swift 
W. J. Chalmers 
Morris Rosenbaum 
Frank G. Logan 
PoRTus B. Weare 
Carter H. Harrison 
Victor F. Lawson 
f. w. gunsaulus 
P. D. Armour 
Charles Fitz-Simons 
John J. Mitchell 

W. G. PURDY 



Fred. S. James 
A. C. McClurg 
Washington Hesing 
Chas. Counselman 
Geo. M. Pullman 
Lloyd J. Smith 
E. P. Ripley 
Richard S. Lyon 
A. R. Reynolds 
John Cudahy 
W. C. Seipp 
G. B. Shaw 
C. H. Chappell 
John T. Dickinson 
Wm. a. Giles 
Eugene Cary 
J. C. Welling 
A. C. Bartlett 
Geo. B. Swift 
M. J. Carpenter 
W. C. Brown 
A. H. Revell 
C. C. Hilton 
H. A. Parker 
J. H. Moore 
J. W. Ellsworth 
R. S. Critchell 
S. W. Allerton 
W. C. Newberry 
Huntington W. Jackson 
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E. G. Keith J. C. Buckner 

H, H, Thomas Norman Williams 

RoswELL Miller O. D. Wetherell 

Abner Taylor Chester M. Dawes 

The last subcommittee, which directed the 
decorations of the streets and buildings, had 
a membership proportionate to the importance 
of its duties : 

E. A. BiGELOW, Chairman 

Geo. H. Jenney Wm, Dickinson 

Elmer Barrett John H. Curtis 

Justice Chancellor J. A. Burhans 

Harry Niblock Percival Steel 

W. H. Chamberlain John Bonnell 

Geo. F. Brown Geo. E. Watson 

A. E. Anderson John T. Shayne 

W. H. DiFFLEY John H. Johnson 

The success of Logan Day, however, lies 
not altogether with the Commission, and the 
committees which so cordially aided it. Every 
citizen of Chicago felt that he was in and of 
the celebration, and all, from least to greatest, 
shared in the result. Hundreds of thousands 
gathered around the veiled statue and cheered 
the march of the troops. The governor of the 
state had summoned the National Guard. The 
mayor declared the 22d of July a public holi- 
day, and through his chief of police made 
feasible the unmarred beauty of the parade. 
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The newspapers of the city joined heartily in 
the work. The great commercial and indus- 
trial organizations gave their aid. Business 
houses and private citizens contributed liber- 
ally of time and money, until, in brief, all 
Chicago must be thanked for the stirring 
memories of the day. And not Chicago alone. 
The President of the United States, detained 
after his acceptance by the pressing duties of 
an extra congressional session, was repre- 
sented by Hon. Russell A. Alger, the Secretary 
of War, and sent the following telegram : 

Executive Mansion, 
Washington, D. C, July 22, 1897. 

General Russell A. Alger, Secretary of 
War, Chicago : Please convey to Mrs. Logan, 
and also to the committee in charge of the 
ceremonies, my profound regret that I cannot 
be present to do honor to the memory of the 
gallant volunteer soldier of two wars, and 
distinguished statesman — my personal friend, 
whose life and work today receives crowning 
honor. General Logan's achievements form 
a part of the most brilliant record of the 
reunited nation, and will live forever in its 
history. 

William McKinley. 
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The senators and representatives from Illi- 
nois were constant in their efforts at Washing- 
ton to insure the success of the dedication. 

The governors of many states, with their 
staffs, joined in these honors to their comrade. 

The Societies of the Armies of the Cumber- 
land, of the Potomac, and of the Tennessee 
showed once again their memories of '6i, and 
the Loyal Legion proved that its members had 
not forgotten the loyalty of the dead. Nor 
was it the blue alone. The wearers of the 
gray were not behind in reverence to the 
bravery of Logan, and their presence sug- 
gested the fuller triumph of the cause for 
which he fought. These honored Logan the 
volunteer, and Logan the statesman was hon- 
ored, too. Veterans of the war recalled the 
stirring times of battle strife. Survivors of 
the famous Hundred and Three remembered 
the scenes of political struggle, and each and 
all joined in praising the man who fought 
fairly and succeeded honestly in both contests 
alike. 

All these, with the soldiers of General Lo- 
gan's own regiment, the 31st Infantry of 
Illinois, gathered not only to honor his mem- 
ory, but to greet again his beloved widow. 
The presence of Mrs. Logan and her children 
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and grandchildren infused a thrill of tender- 
ness through all the ceremonies. Statesman 
and grizzled veteran wept as they grasped 
the cordial hand of her who had been the 
loving and helpful companion of the man 
whom they loved and honored, and whose life 
was so bright an ornament in the history of 
their common state. 

Such was the aim of Logan Day, and thus 
the Commissioners endeavored to fulfill the 
trust they had received from the state. This 
souvenir of July 22, 1897, may suggest the 
feelings of the people of Illinois for John A. 
Logan. It can only suggest these. No one 
who was not here, from the time the first 
honored guests were welcomed to Chicago 
with fitting honors to the moment when, 
grateful and impressed, they took their 
departure, can know how great was the wave 
of patriotic feeling, and how intense the spirit 
of devotion, not only to the memory of Logan, 
but also to the country which he served. Such 
an occasion is an inspiration to the people. 
The sentiment which lives in the speeches of 
that day is a tonic which can only prove as 
wholesome to those who listened and to those 
who now may read as is the sight of the statue 
at whose unveiling they were delivered. 
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Among man}'' expressions of regret from 
those who could not attend, the following 
telegram from Senator William E. Mason and 
letter from Senator S. M. Cullom were read at 
the unveiling by the secretary of the Commis- 
sion, Richard S. Tuthill : 

Washington, D. C, July 22,1897. — Henry 
W. Blodgett, Chairman : The condition of 
public business makes it impossible for me to 
be with you on this great occasion for Illinois. 
I feel sure I will honor Logan's memory better 
by honest application to public business than 
in any other way. This would meet the 
approval of the dead general, and I hope will 
meet your approval and that of my many 
friends whom I had hoped to meet today at 
Chicago. William E. Mason. 

United States Senate, 
Washington, D. C, July 20, 1897. 

Hon. H. W. Blodgett, Chicago, 111. : My 
dear Sir — I had expected until yesterday that 
I could be present on the occasion of the un- 
veiling of the statue of the late gallant soldier 
and statesman, General Logan. Conditions 
in Congress will detain me here. I very much 
regret it. I cannot allow this occasion to pass. 



however, without giving expression to a few 
words suitable to the occasion : 

The life and services of General Logan 
will be remembered in the generations and 
centuries to come. The death of a great man, 
while it may enshroud a nation in sorrow, is 
but the beginning of his life in history. 

The passing of the patriot and hero from 
his work to his reward is the occasion for the 
world to close its balance sheet and to enter 
its judgment upon his earthly career. Yet the 
verdict is not always complete at the moment 
of his death. 

A hundred years have been too few for 
more than a beginning in the study of the 
heroism, the patriotism, and the wisdom of 
the Father of his Country. 

Thirty years have been a period all too brief 
for even a preface to the work which shall 
describe the life of Abraham Lincoln. His 
history has not yet been written ; his life story 
has not yet been told, and will still be new in 
the centuries to come. 

But what shall I say of the life whose charm 
and influence have been gone from us but a 
brief ten years ? Almost everybody in our 
state remembers the striking figure, the spark- 
ling eye, and manly voice of that son of lUi- 



nois who gave up his life on the day following 
the Christmas of 1886. The people knew him 
and loved him. 

The statesmen who knew him in the senate 
— the political forum of the world — have paid 
him the honors which he so justly earned. 
The volunteer soldiers have joined their love 
with their tears in every hamlet of the land. 
At every Union soldier's tomb, in every part 
of the country where Memorial Day has ever 
been observed, there rises an annual invocation 
in honor alike of the patriot soldiers of the 
Union and of the hero who is to rest beneath 
the statue you are to unveil. There are to 
repose the ashes of the soldier who originated 
the beautiful ceremony of decorating with a 
memorial of flowers the graves where a mil- 
lion young men of America lie buried. 

Not very far from the spot, by the side of 
the peaceful lake, where the Logan monu- 
ment is erected, I remember a time when 
multitudes of people gathered to welcome 
home to Illinois and to Chicago the returning 
hero, Logan. That spontaneous demonstra- 
tion in honor of the soldier statesman was for 
the living Logan, The great multitudes who 
will assemble from all parts of the state to wit- 
ness the ceremony on Thursday next are 
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honoring the same Logan, who, although dead, 
still lives in the hearts of the people. 

The place is historic ground. Not historic, 
perhaps, in the sense that the ancient places in 
Europe and Asia are renowned. But it is to 
be always remembered as the place where, in 
the very childhood of the Northwest Territory, 
the pioneers of the frontier settlement of Fort 
Dearborn yielded up their lives to savage 
violence and baptized the soil with their blood. 

And in a very recent day, the ground not 
far away, along the same lake front, was made 
radiant and beautiful by such a wonderful 
gathering of the triumphs of peace, progress, 
and industry as the world had never seen. 

I first knew General Logan in the legislature 
of 1856 and 1857. I knew him as a colleague 
in both houses of Congress, and I came to 
love and admire him. He was always ready 
and resolute, prompt and forcible. He was a 
remarkable man, a powerful leader. For 
thirty years I enjoyed the honor of his ac- 
quaintance, and during all that time we were 
often together and associated in public affairs. 

It has been said that the use of language is 

to conceal the thoughts of men. Not so with 

Logan. He wore no mask as he stood before 

the people. It has been said of him that the 

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words of Homer's poetic hero might fitly have 
been Logan's : 

For I hate with perfect hatred, 
Hate him like the gates of hell, 

Who within him one thought harbors, 
While his lips another tell. 

Another great man, once the idol of the 
people of Illinois and for fourteen years a 
senator from Illinois, lies buried upon the 
shore of Lake Michigan, in Chicago. Above 
the form of Stephen A. Douglas stands the 
beautiful shaft erected in his honor. 

And another — a near neighbor in death as 
in life — a senator of the United States for 
nearly twenty years from his chosen state, 
Illinois — Lyman Trumbull, rests in his final 
home close by the borders of your city. 

These three senators, each in his time the 
custodian and guardian of the public wel- 
fare — men who in the past have had to do 
with the vitality, the very life of the Prairie 
State — are at rest beneath its soil. Each and 
all of them have engraved their names on the 
tablets of their country's honor and glory. 
Their work was not bounded by state lines, 
but was coextensive with the nation itself. 

No rivalry is here. In eternal peace — in 
sacred love — for all future time, these states- 
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men sleep. It matters little where they were 
born — they were all Illinoisans — they were 
all Americans. But of Logan alone can it be 
said that, from birth to death, he was always 
a citizen of Illinois. Much as he prided him- 
self upon his citizenship of our great state, 
much as he admired our prairies and our 
rivers, our citizens, our institutions, and our 
people, yet, above all, and immeasurably over 
all, and in his view, the grandest heritage 
which he gloried in was the country he loved, 
with its beautiful emblem — the flag of the 

United States. 

Respectfully yours, 

S. M. CULLOM. 

This eloquent tribute from a lifelong friend 
of Logan, his fellow-member in the legislature 
of Illinois and in both houses of the national 
Congress, expresses well the sentiment of his 
state, and it is in the same spirit that the Com- 
mission offers this memorial of the 22nd of 
July, 1897. 



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Sketch of John A. Logan 



John Alexander Logan was born in Jackson 
county, Illinois, February 9, 1826; his father, 
Dr. John Logan, came from Ireland when a 
young man and settled in Maryland, but 
removed to Kentucky, thence to Missouri, 
and finally to Illinois, The son was educated 
at a common school and under a private tutor. 
This instruction was supplemented, in 1840, 
by attendance at Shiloh College. When war 
with Mexico was declared, he volunteered as 
a private, in the 1st Illinois Infantry, and 
was soon chosen a lieutenant. He did good 
service as a soldier, and for some time was 
acting quartermaster of his regiment. After 
his return from Mexico he began the study of 
law with his uncle, Alexander M, Jenkins, and 
in 1849 was elected clerk of Jackson county, 
but resigned to continue the study of law. In 
185 1 he was graduated at Louisville Uni- 
versity, admitted to the bar, and became his 
uncle's partner. He soon grew popular, and 
his forcible style of oratory, pleasing address, 
and fine voice secured his election to the 
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legislature in 1852 and again in 1856. At the 
end of his first term he resumed practice, with 
such success that he was soon chosen prose- 
cuting attorney for the third judicial district. 
In 1852 he removed to Benton, Franklin 
county, Illinois. He was a presidential elec- 
tor in 1856 on the Buchanan and Breckin- 
ridge ticket. In 1858 he was elected to 
Congress from Illinois as a Douglas Democrat, 
and was reelected in i860. In the presiden- 
tial campaign of that year he earnestly advo- 
cated the election of Stephen A. Douglas ; 
but, on the first intimation of coming trouble 
from the South, he declared that, in the event 
of the election of Abraham Lincoln, he would, 
if need be, "shoulder his musket to have him 
inaugurated." In July, 1861, during the extra 
session of Congress that was called by Presi- 
dent Lincoln, he left his seat, overtook the 
troops that were marching out of Washington 
to meet the enemy, and fought in the ranks of 
Colonel Richardson's regiment in the battle 
of Bull Run, being among the last to leave 
the field. Returning home in the latter part 
of August, 1 86 1, he resigned his seat in Con- 
gress, organized the 31st Illinois Infantry, and 
was appointed its colonel in September of that 
year. At Belmont, in November, he led a suc- 
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cessful bayonet charge, and his horse was shot 
under him. He led his regiment in the attack 
on Fort Henry ; and at Fort Donelson, while 
gallantly leading the assault, received a wound 
that incapacitated him for active service for 
some time. After his recovery he reported 
for duty to General Grant at Pittsburg Land- 
ing, and was made a brigadier general of vol- 
unteers in March, 1862. He took an important 
part in the movement against Corinth, and sub- 
sequently was given the command at Jackson, 
Tennessee, with instructions to guard railroad 
communications, which he did with consum- 
mate vigilance. In the summer of 1862 his 
constituents urged him to become a candidate 
for reelection to Congress, but he declined, 
saying in his letter: "I have entered the field 
to die, if need be, for this government, and 
never expect to return to peaceful pursuits 
until the object of this war of preservation has 
become a fact established." 

During Grant's northern Mississippi cam- 
paign General Logan commanded the third 
division of the 17th Army Corps under Gen- 
eral McPherson, and was promoted major 
general of volunteers, to date from November 
26, 1862. He participated in the battles of 
Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, and Cham- 
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pion Hills. In the siege of Vicksburg he 
commanded McPherson's center, and on June 
25 made the assault after the explosion of the 
mine. His column was the first to enter the 
captured city, and he was appointed its mili- 
tary governor. He succeeded General W. T. 
Sherman in the command of the 15th Army 
Corps in November, 1863. In May, 1864, he 
joined Sherman's army, which was preparing 
for its march into Georgia, led the advance of 
the Army of the Tennessee in the fight at 
Resaca, repulsed Hardee's veterans at Dallas, 
and drove the enemy from his line of works at 
Kenesaw Mountain. General Sherman says in 
his report of the battle of Atlanta, speaking of 
General McPherson's death : " General Logan 
succeeded him and commanded the Army of 
the Tennessee through this desparate battle 
with the same success and ability that had 
characterized him in the command of a corps 
or division." In fact, it was mainly his skill 
and determination that saved Sherman's army 
from a serious disaster during that engage- 
ment. After the fall of Atlanta, September 
I, 1864, he went home and took an active part 
in the presidential campaign of that year. He 
rejoined his troops, who had accompanied 
General Sherman in his famous "March to the 
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Sea," at Savannah, and remained in active serv- 
ice with Sherman's army till the surrender of 
General Joseph E. Johnston, April 26, 1865. On 
May 25 he was appointed to the command of 
the Army of the Tennessee, and led its troops in 
the grand review in Washington at the close of 
the war; but as soon as active service in the 
field was over, he resigned his commission, 
saying that he did not wish to draw pay when 
not on active duty. He was appointed min- 
ister to Mexico by President Johnson, but 
declined. In 1866 he was elected "congress- 
man-at-large," by a majority of over fifty 
thousand, from Illinois to the XLth Congress 
as a Republican, and served as one of the man- 
agers in the impeachment trial of President 
Johnson. He was reelected to the XLIst Con- 
gress, and did good service as chairman of the 
committee on military affairs in securing the 
passage of an act for the reduction of the 
army. He was reelected to the XLIId Con- 
gress, but before the body convened he was 
chosen by the Illinois legislature United States 
senator for the term beginning March 4, 1871. 
He succeeded Vice-President Wilson as chair- 
man of the senate committee on military 
affairs at the beginning of the third session of 
the XLIId Congress. After the expiration of 
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his term of service, March 3, 1877, he resumed 
the practice of law in Chicago. He was again 
returned to the senate, and took his seat on 
the convening of that body in extra session, in 
March, 1879. Both in the house and senate 
General Logan maintained his reputation as a 
brilliant and able debater, and as a useful 
working member. 

At the Republican national convention in 
Chicago, in June, 1884, on the first ballot for a 
candidate for President, General Logan re- 
ceived a highly complimentary vote. After 
the subsequent nomination of Mr. Blaine, Gen- 
eral Logan was nominated for Vice-President 
and made an able campaign in behalf of the 
Republican ticket. He died at his home in 
Washington, D. C, December 26, 1886. When 
General Logan's sudden death was announced 
to him, James G. Blaine thus briefly summa- 
rized his character: "General Logan was a 
man of immense force in a legislative body. 
His will was unbending, his courage, both 
moral and physical, was of the highest order. 
I never knew a more fearless man. He did 
not quail before public opinion when he had 
once made up his mind any more than he did 
before the guns of the enemy when he headed 
a charge of his enthusiastic troops." 
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In private life he was a sincere, earnest 
friend, and a faithful and loving husband and 
father. 

He was the idol of his own party and com- 
manded the respect and admiration of his 
political opponents. The deep affection in 
which he was held by the people of his native 
state is attested by the appropriation which 
the legislature made for the erection of a statue 
to his memory. 



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The Monument and the Sculptor 



LORADO TAFT 



Augustus St. Gaudens has been to our little 
band of native sculptors what Paul Dubois has 
been to the army of French workers in the 
plastic arts. He is our acknowledged head 
and leader. With his return from the Parisian 
studio and the unveiling of the Farragut, a new 
influence came into American art. Ward and 
other sturdy spirits had already emancipated 
themselves from the dominion of modern Ital- 
ian sculpture. These men stand as pioneers 
of a new and really national art, but each 
stands alone. It was reserved for St. Gaudens 
to gather about him a group of devoted disci- 
ples, to discover among them creative powers 
of exceptional promise, and in ever-increasing 
circles of influence to turn the attention of 
our people to the beautiful art of which he is 
master. 

In this way St. Gaudens has done a remark- 
able work, one concrete expression of which 
we beheld with amazement at the Columbian 
Exposition. No one, not even the sculptors 
themselves, would have believed it possible to 
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make such use of sculptural decorations in this 
country — to produce works so vast and so 
good in the short space of time at command. 
St. Gaudens alone had the imagination to fore- 
see, the power to enlist the enthusiasm of 
others, the skill to solve the practical prob- 
lems, and, happily, the convincing eloquence 
to carry the day with those in control. The 
result was that dream of beauty in which the 
sculpture was only second to the magnificent 
architecture, giving to the ensemble its final and 
highest grace. Its memory is as real today as 
was its presence then ; its potency for good will 
not wane for many a year. 

St. Gaudens has used bronze almost exclu- 
sively as his medium. His handling of this 
material cannot be surpassed. An artist finds 
in it a delight which it is impossible to express 
in words. The writer has occasionally discov- 
ered in eastern museums and churches memo- 
rial tablets with which he was unfamiliar. So 
great is our master's prestige that nearly every- 
thing done in this line suggests at first glance 
his treatment, and would raise a momentary 
query in the mind. If, upon closer inspection, 
the workmanship was found to be in the 
slightest degree careless or open to criticism, 
it was not his; if it bore the most careful 
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scrutiny and was "just right," it was sure to be 
signed somewhere, in letters microscopic, Au- 
gustus St. Gaudens, To the professional eye, 
however, it needed no signature ; he alone 
could do it ! 

The same thought came over me as I 
climbed last summer the steps which lead up 
to the gallant Logan. I felt the emotion which 
comes to one in the presence of a masterpiece 
— a great idea triumphantly voiced. The 
effect of the statue as a whole is superb ; a 
marvelous harmonizing of the dash and impet- 
uosity of the subject with the inexorable 
limitations of monumental art. Vitality and 
containment are here united in perfect balance. 
Nearer approach brings the same aesthetic pleas- 
ure which we find in our sculptor's smallest 
relief. Each stroke is as it should be. Nothing 
is neglected, yet nothing is over-insistent. All 
detail is subordinated to the general result. 
Even the brazen wreaths about the base, so 
admirably decorative, do not cry out for recog- 
nition. 

Chicago has been most fortunate in obtain- 
ing two of St. Gaudens' greatest works " to 
hold and possess, we and our heirs forever." 
To appreciate the greatness of his art we 
should contrast these two statues and realize 
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what delineation of character is here. With 
what a masterly choice of pose and look has 
the artist epitomized the life of these two 
noble but dissimilar types ! Psychologically, 
the Lincoln and the Logan statues present an 
analysis no less remarkable than is the tech- 
nique which has given it visible expression. 

In the presence of a great collection of art 
works, as in a library of thousands of volumes, 
one is sometimes thrilled by the thought of 
the amount of time and toil expended in 
their production. Here, on the other hand, 
while not unmindful of the years which these 
treasures of our young city have cost, we may 
exult as we contemplate in imagination the 
audience which our greatest sculptor addresses 
— the myriads of human beings who shall look 
upon these monuments, who may be inspired 
by them in other days ! A mighty army, an 
ever-hastening stream advances toward us 
through the dim perspective of centuries yet 
unborn. Toward us ? No ; we, too, move 
with it. Never a pause is vouchsafed us in 
the silent lock-step of the ages. 

But these remain ! They will stand when 
we and our children and our children's chil- 
dren are returned to the dust. Happy the 
man who has thus linked his name with immor- 
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tality, who has created these forms so noble, 
so enduring, and so worthy of eternity. We 
salute them as we pass, and though they return 
not our greeting, they give us something bet- 
ter. A virtue goes out from them. He who 
looks upon them is, perforce, braver and truer 
and stronger. 



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The Unveiling 



Invocation 



ARTHUR EDWARDS 



Almighty God, Maker of the heavens and 
the earth, King of kings. Lord of lords, Creator 
of all men, and Father of all spirits : 

We worship Thee this day as the source 
of all our benefits and blessings. We thank 
Thee for our conscious lives, for our republic, 
for our homes — which are the foundations of 
the republic ; for our churches and our schools, 
and for all the moral forces which have shaped 
the nation of which we are a part. 

We thank Thee for the literature, the just 
laws, the sciences, the liberal benefactions, the 
mutual human trust, and the generous impulses 
which procure and preserve amity and peace 
among civilized peoples. 

We thank Thee for the manliness, courage, 
devotion, and conscientious convictions which 
made possible our brave men and heroic women 
in the years when armies took the field against 
us, and dared to assail that for which our fore- 
fathers suffered and died. 

We thank Thee for our noble mothers, wives, 
sisters, and daughters, and for their undying 
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patriotism and love manifested when they sadly 
but gladly permitted their fathers, husbands, 
brothers, and sons to leave their dear ones to 
the care of God and risk their all upon the 
field of battle. 

While we are assembled here today, may 
God make vivid, emphasize, and impress upon 
this great congregation a sense of the priceless 
value of all that for which women have suffered 
at home, and of that for which men were will- 
ing to yield all save their sacred honor. 

Pardon all our sins ; remit the guilt of that 
in our national laws or habits or indulgences 
for which we may have become responsible 
through our ignorance or by our indifference 
to the bounden duties of citizenship. 

Revive within us a just appreciation of all 
that which by Thy blessing has preserved the 
nation until this day. Reawaken us to the con- 
ditions upon which God will alone continue 
our national life. We pray Thee to increase 
the number of our honest, God-fearing office- 
bearers, and to graciously rebuke and remove 
from power all those who have abused their 
sacred trusts. 

Grant Thy special blessings upon the family 
whose heroic husband and father is named by 
every voice in the nation today. May our 
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grateful memories rival even this bronze in 
commemorating heroic and patriotic deeds. 
We pray Thee to stimulate our gratitude toward 
all those who fought for the republic, and to 
quicken the spirit of genuine patriotism in 
every American heart. 

Impress each one of us with the sense of 
personal responsibility for our homes, for our 
nation, and for the continued existence of Chris- 
tian civilization upon the earth. 

Help us to serve Thee by serving our fellow- 
men, and in the end bring us to the better king- 
dom above — through Him who hath loved us 
and gave Himself for us. Amen. 



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Presentation by the Commission 



HENRY W. BLODGETT 



On the loth day of February, 1887, the 
legislature of Illinois passed an act making 
an appropriation for the erection of a monu- 
ment to the memory of the distinguished 
citizen and soldier of our state, Major General 
John A. Logan. 

The act constituted Henry W, Blodgett, 
William C. Goudy, Robert T. Lincoln, John 
M. Palmer, Milton Hay, Richard S. Tuthill, 
William H. Harper, Melville W. Fuller, John 
R.Walsh, Oliver A. Harker, William S. Morris, 
and George W. Smith commissioners to erect 
such monument, and provided that the site for 
the same should be selected by the widow of 
General Logan in the city of Chicago, or else- 
where in the state of Illinois, and authorized 
the fixing of such site in any public park or 
boulevard. 

The work delegated by the act to the Com- 
missioners was necessarily one which required 
much time and study on the part of the mem- 
bers — none of whom had had any experience 
in matters of that kind. 
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As the first step in the duty before them 
the Commissioners decided that the monument 
should be a bronze equestrian statue of General 
Logan ; and, after careful inquiry and exami- 
nation of the work of several other sculptors, 
Mr. Augustus St. Gaudens, of the city of New 
York, who had established his claim as an 
artist of high merit by his marvelous statue of 
Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago, 
was selected as the artist to design and execute 
the monument ; and Mrs. Logan, under author- 
ity given her, selected a site for the monument 
in Jackson Park, in the southern part of the 
city of Chicago. Soon after this selection had 
been made, Jackson Park was designated as the 
place for holding the World's Fair of 1892, 
and it became impossible to proceed with the 
erection of the monument in that park until 
after the close of the Fair and the removal of 
the Fair buildings and structures. Criticism 
was also made upon the propriety of locating 
the monument in a public park so far from the 
center of the city, where it would be compara- 
tively inaccessible to the general public, and 
a few months since, by the consent of Mrs. 
Logan and the board of commissioners of the 
South Park and the Lake Front Park, the site 
was changed to a point on the east side of 
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Michigan Avenue opposite the terminus of Eld- 
ridge Court, where it has been erected and is 
now ready for unveiling. 

Your Commissioners are satisfied that the 
change of site and the delay in the completion 
of the monument have operated to secure a 
better work of art and a far better location 
for the monument. The artist has had ample 
time to study his subject and embody in endur- 
ing bronze the Logan of the battlefield and 
of history. The great artist, unlike the daily 
drudge at his toil, must wait for the inspiration 
which comes only at times to genius, and your 
Commissioners feel assured that the time the 
artist has been allowed by the circumstances 
referred to has been well and profitably spent. 

Most of the present generation of Illinois 
knew Logan and have a distinct memory of his 
form and features, as well as a high apprecia- 
tion of his heroism as a soldier and his fidelity 
as a patriot, and we need no bronze statue to 
quicken our love and gratitude toward him. 

But this monument is for generations who 
shall come after ours, and who, we hope, may 
be inspired by this idealization of the living 
man to imitate his heroic and patriotic life. 

In turning this work over to the public of 
after-ages, I am constrained to make brief men- 
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tion of an incident in General Logan's career 
which came directly under my own knowledge, 
and the facts of which rest now entirely with 
me, all the other actors being dead. 

It will be remembered by all who were old 
enough to take note of public affairs at the 
time that after the overt acts of rebellion in 
the spring of the early summer of 1861, and 
when the forces of the Union and the Confed- 
eracy were arrayed against each other in front 
of Washington, a special session of Congress 
was called by President Lincoln to meet on 
the Fourth of July. 

Like many others, I went to Washington, 
arriving there on the morning of Sunday, July 
3. I took a room at Willard's Hotel, and after 
breakfast went to the old National Hotel on 
Pennsylvania Avenue, between Willard's and 
the Capitol. There I met several of the Dem- 
ocratic members of Congress from Illinois, and 
among them Mr. Logan. We had some brief 
conversation of special importance, and I 
returned to my hotel. About 3 o'clock in the 
afternoon I went again to the National and 
took a seat in the public room, waiting for a 
gentleman from New York city, whom I 
expected to meet there. I had not waited 
long when I saw Logan coming down the 
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stairs. Having known him quite well for sev- 
eral years, I noticed at once that he was very 
much excited. He saw me and came directly 
to my seat, clutched me by the arm and said : 
"Blodgett, I was going to look for you. Come 
with me." We passed out of the hotel and 
across the avenue and along to the entrance 
to the Botanical Garden. We went into the 
garden and into one of the unoccupied green- 
houses, where we found seats. Up to this time 
neither of us had said a word as to the object 
of the interview, but as soon as we were alone 
he said, earnestly and solemnly: "Blodgett, 
war — a long, bloody war — is inevitable ; " and 
then he said that he had hoped up to the last 
hour that some plan of reconciliation which 
would avert a war and save the Union could 
be agreed upon, and that some Democratic 
members of Congress had sent Henry May, 
then a member of Congress from Maryland, to 
Richmond to obtain from the Confederate 
leaders the terms upon which they would 
agree that the revolted states should resume 
their places in the Union ; that Mr. May had 
returned from Richmond that morning and 
had just made his report to the gentlemen 
interested in his mission. It was that the 
Confederate President had said to him: "Go 
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back and tell your friends that if Lincoln had 
sent to us by your hand a blank sheet of paper, 
with his signature at the bottom, and a request 
that we write above it the terms and condi- 
tions on which we would return to the Union, 
all we would write over it would be 'uncondi- 
tional separation.' " 

"Now," said Logan, "that ends all hope of 
compromise and settlement, and the only 
alternative is to fight to the bitter end for the 
preservation of the Union, and I want you to 
go with me at once to the White House, where 
I intend to tender my services to Mr. Lincoln, 
to raise a regiment in my own Illinois district, 
and go into the field." 

We walked directly up the avenue and 
passed into the garden in the rear of the White 
House. It being Sunday, we knew that visit- 
ors were not, as a rule, admitted, but hoped 
we might see some members of the family, or 
some of the clerks who knew us and could 
secure our admittance. Fortunately we saw 
Mr. Lincoln himself sitting in one of the win- 
dows, and as soon as he recognized us he called 
out to us to come in, and an attendant came 
out to show us the way. We were received 
very cordially, and Logan, without any prelim- 
inaries, said to the President that he had come 
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to tender his services to do all in his power to 
save the Union ; and that he wanted leave to 
raise a regiment in his own district and get 
into the fight as soon as possible. 

Mr. Lincoln cordially thanked him for his 
offer, but told him that he could do his country 
better service for the next few weeks by stay- 
ing in his place in Congress and giving his 
support to such legislation as was needed to 
put the nation on a war footing, Mr. Lincoln 
adding that there were a great many northern 
Democrats in Congress who needed the sup- 
port and example of an energetic leader and 
party associate like Logan. He, however, 
assured Logan that he should have authority 
to raise a regiment as soon as he could be 
spared from Congress. 

I do not know how long Logan remained in 
Congress after that interview with the Presi- 
dent, but the records show that the 31st 
Illinois, with Logan as colonel commanding, 
was mustered into the service of the United 
States on the eighth day of the following Sep- 
tember, and I know, not only from what Mr. 
Lincoln said at that interview, but afterward, 
that he fully appreciated the ardent patriotic 
impulse which prompted Logan to throw him- 
self with all his zeal and vigor into the military 
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service of his country ; and we all know, for it 
is part of our recorded history, how fearlessly 
and ably he served his country and the cause 
of freedom until the Union was saved, and how 
richly he earned the monument we here unveil 
tohim today. 



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Acceptance by the State 



GOVERNOR JOHN R. TANNER 



The lessons of this hour are impressive. 
Each citizen should carry from this place, not 
only a renewed faith in free institutions, but a 
strengthened determination to live up to those 
high models of duty and patriotism with which 
the history of our country so richly abounds. 

Most gladly do I, as the humble represen- 
tative of this commonwealth, accept, in behalf 
of the people, this monument to the memory 
of one of Illinois' most beloved and gifted 
sons. And, in accepting this memorial for the 
great state that Logan so truly loved and so 
long served, I shall make my few words 
accord, so far as I can, with the historical les- 
sons which the life and career of John A. 
Logan so pointedly teach to the rising genera- 
tions of Americans. I will not attempt to 
glorify or to further exalt the name of Logan. 
That he has already done for himself beyond 
any man's power to add to or to diminish. By 
word and by deed, by character and by cour- 
age, and through untiring devotion and 
supreme service to his fellow-citizens, he won 
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for his own great name a place upon the 
brightest and best pages of American history. 
Generations yet unborn, with full hearts and 
tear-dimmed eyes, will read that splendid story 
of patriotism, devotion, and courage, and those 
who are prone to despair of the cause of liberty 
and good government will here take heart and 
learn a higher faith in the goodness and wis- 
dom of mankind. It is said the greatest 
statues require the least drapery, and certainly 
the great characters of history can gain very 
little from words and phrases of mere eulogy. 
A great fame which rests upon supreme 
achievements for mankind, and which takes 
hold firmly upon the hearts and souls of men, 
asks nothing from the tinsel of mere speech. 
That thing called notoriety often owes its 
existence to what is written and said, but fame 
— real fame — has its enduring foundation 
upon that which has been done. It is the deed 
of a hero which praises him. Men of vanity 
and self-importance often wrangle desperately 
tor a little standing room in the dim vale of 
historical oblivion, but Logan was content to 
do the simple and unconscious duty of the 
hour ; and with a serene confidence he left to 
his country and to time the keeping of his 
matchless fame. He rested his cause upon the 
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good opinion of his fellow-men, and this 
splendid monument, surrounded here today by 
an immense outpouring of the men and women 
who love and honor his memory, is ample 
proof that he did not trust his countrymen in 
vain. 

It is, indeed, fitting that we should gather 
from all quarters of this imperial state and 
from every section of this free republic to 
dedicate a memorial here in this city of Gen- 
eral Logan's home, among the people who in 
his lifetime knew and loved him — a memorial 
which shall tell to the multitudes who will visit 
this spot in time to come that the spirit of 
patriotism and of gratitude is not wanting in 
the hearts of the American people. This 
statue which we dedicate today will tell to all 
who gather here that Logan and the great 
work that Logan did for his country and the 
world can never be forgotten either in Illinois 
or within the limits of this great republic as 
long as the spirit of civil liberty dwells among 
our people. 

At the day of his death Logan possessed in 
the United States the largest and most devoted 
personal following that any man has had since 
Lincoln and Grant passed from mortal view ; 
and now, more than ten years after this man 
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was followed to the tomb by a mourning na- 
tion, the people have built and dedicated to 
his memory this magnificent memorial. Why 
has this been done? Why is the name of 
Logan revered by the American people ? Not 
aimlessly have our citizens given of their sub- 
stance for this purpose, and not without ade- 
quate reason have they left their various 
callings and gathered today about this shrine 
to give expression to their faith and their 
gratitude. It is because there is a lesson in 
this heroic life and in this exalted career. It 
is what this man did and what he was, and 
what he stands for in American history, which 
is thus typified and embalmed in bronze, rather 
than the mere personal outlines of his form, 
now passed away. 

I will tell you briefly, fellow-citizens, what 
I think this occasion and this demonstration 
really means. It means that John A. Logan 
is, in the public mind, the very embodiment of 
the militant patriotism of the United States ; 
that he is and will ever be to the people the 
greatest of the volunteers in the cause of 
nationality and liberty ; the preeminent citizen- 
soldier — the representative, above all others, 
of the volunteers who fought and conquered 
in the ranks for the Union cause. Not trained 
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and educated to fight battles, not a warrior by- 
occupation, but rather by nature and surround- 
ings a man of gentleness and peace, he sprang 
with the quick instincts of a patriot to the 
defense of his country in a supreme crisis, 
and, seizing the trailing banner of the republic, 
bore it onward to victory and glory. Logan 
represents preeminently the military power 
which resides in the people. He represents 
that safeguard of popular government which 
was found during the rebellion, in the sturdy- 
courage and patriotism of the citizen-soldiery 
of the United States. I do not say that Logan 
represents no other thing and no other idea, 
but I do say that he furnishes the most dis 
tinguished example of a citizen-soldier to be 
found in the history of the world. 

His splendid career is before us today for 
review. We see him, in the spring of 1861, 
rend the political associations and friendships 
of a lifetime, and, leaving his seat in the 
Congress of the United States, he shouldered 
a musket, and we behold him rush to the res- 
cue of his imperiled country. From that hour 
we recognize him marching with a gallantry- 
unsurpassed in the very vanguard of the ad- 
vancing line of bayonets borne by the Union 
hosts, until the supreme moment when the 
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rebellion expired and the flag of the Union 
floated triumphantly to the breeze at Appo- 
mattox. We see him by the bivouac fires of 
the Tennessee ; we see him at Vicksburg ; we 
see him riding like a belted knight on the 
twenty-second day of July, 1864, at the 
battle of Atlanta, when gallant McPherson 
fell, and springing like the god of war to the 
command of the Army of the Tennessee ; and 
we see him with Sherman at the head of the 
old 15th Corps cleaving the groaning rebel- 
lion in twain from Atlanta to the sea. 

Wherever danger threatened or duty called, 
this gallant man of the people was at the front, 
treading always the path to honor and to glory. 
In no man was the spirit of American patriot- 
ism ever more nearly incarnate than in General 
Logan. He was of heroic mold. He brought 
to the cause he espoused a cool head, but a 
warm and impatient heart. No man with such 
furious impulses as he possessed has ever 
combined with them, as he did, the cool intel- 
lect to direct his course in the paths of wis- 
dom. He possessed that rare quality which, 
it has been said, "gazes like the eagle and 
strikes like the thunderbolt." 

He was born to lead and to be followed, 
and no man was ever followed with a higher 
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enthusiasm than that with which the Union 
volunteers followed the immortal Logan to 
victory. 

When Logan went to the aid of the Union, 
he took with him all the hosts of this state 
who lingered in the borderland of doubt and 
distrust. His call was like the slogan of 
Roderick Dhu, and in it was the contagion 
which produced the great uprising for the 
Union throughout Illinois. Doubt fled, and 
duty to country rose supreme, as the black 
eagle of Illinois, armed and mounted for the 
fray, dashed to the front, and called to his 
bewildered and doubting countrymen to fol- 
low. 

Time would fail me to speak of the splendid 
career of General Logan in civil life. As a 
statesman he was wise, courageous, and incor- 
ruptible, but even these qualities did not pro- 
tect him from bitter calumny. Often assailed 
by a portion of the venal and venomous press 
of his own city as if he had been a criminal, 
because it could not control and own him, he 
yet demonstrated to the world that he could 
neither be driven nor bullied, and, above all, he 
demonstrated that he who fearlessly performs 
his duty will have at last the support of good 
and thoughtful men. 

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The virtues and deeds of such men should 
be garnered and preserved in our national 
treasure-house, that they may stand as a per- 
petual inspiration to all our people. Logan 
labored with supreme ability to maintain the 
Constitution and the laws. National preser- 
vation and national supremacy are but equiva- 
lent words for law and order. Abraham 
Lincoln was right when he said that secession 
was the "essence of anarchy ;" and whenever 
in the future the spirit of sedition shall raise 
its head in this fair land ; whenever plausible 
demagogues shall whisper in the ears of the 
vicious or the unfortunate that their govern- 
ment has robbed them, that their courts are 
an organized system of oppression, and that 
only the rich and the great can receive benefit 
from our laws and institutions, we will point 
to this monument which commemorates the 
deeds of this man of the people ; we will 
appeal to that heroic life, to that supreme serv- 
ice rendered to all classes and conditions of 
men by this heroic character, and from this 
great and shining example we will renew our 
courage and receive inspiration sufficient to 
meet every peril which may beset the land 
which Logan loved and which he did so much 
to save. 

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Oration 



GEORGE R. PECK 



Illinois is proud and happy. Waiting 
patiently for a fitting time, she opens all her 
welcoming gates and bids the world take note 
what breed of men she rears. Here is the 
product of her soil, and here she brings a 
mother's exultant heart to be enshrined. This 
great city, the lake with all its breadth of 
waters, the prairies stretching outward to the 
west, and the sky, mingling light and cloud 
in an ever-changing picture, are resplendent 
witnesses of' the scene. The event, the hour, 
and the man are historic. 

Once, upon a day like this, the pulse of 
summer was beating hot and fierce, when a 
great leader fell, as leaders must fall if it be so 
appointed. Some are here to whom it seems 
but yesterday. They remember the clustering 
pines, the thickets dark with the foliage of 
July, the spires of Atlanta wooing them for- 
ward yet a little farther ; and they remember, 
too, as they will remember always, the mes- 
sage, speeding like an arrow in its flight, that 
told how McPherson lay dead in his harness, 
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ere yet his fame had passed its dawn. Surely, 
I am not wrong in saying that never was this 
nation in more deadly peril than when the 
Army of the Tennessee was left like some great 
rudderless ship in the grasp of the storm. 

"Of what avail are men," says Carlyle, 
"when we must needs have a man?" But the 
man came ; nay, he was already there, flashing 
as was his wont, in that imperious way which 
scorns to parley with fate, but subdues it with 
a glance. On that day — July 22, 1864 — John 
A. Logan was born to immortality. 

Here we place his image for all generations. 
Here we salute the soldier, the statesman, and 
the man, in memory of that sublime moment 
when he took into his keeping the flag, the 
issue, and the cause. 

Anniversaries are harmonies ; and, in ob- 
serving them, we set history to music. On 
that day none looked forward to this. But 
time has a magician's hand, and, when it has 
transformed real things into dreams, touches 
the dreams and, straightway, they are real 
again. Behold the bronze epic ! Anna virum- 
que to all who shall gaze on these heroic fea- 
tures. Out of the past the battle of Atlanta 
comes back distinct and clear, though then but 
a weltering struggle. The years give us the 
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perspective ; and now we see, as we could not 
when the smoke of battle was over us, that 
devoted army — which was the incarnate West 
— desperately facing the foe, while one great 
thought filled every heart: " Logan is here!" 
In their agony, having no other refuge, they 
took council of faith, and bravely trusted that 
all would go well if he guided their fortunes. 

Art has a subtle vision. It worships beauty 
and therein, if we but knew it, shows its wis- 
dom. Poems and songs are links which unite 
it to nature, and to human nature, which is the 
flower of all things. It puts light and color 
upon canvas, only that the picture may speak 
the universal language. It shapes ideals into 
form, as Phidias carved in the rude marble 
those dreams of beauty that haunted him when 
he thought of Marathon. How can we ever 
forget, while this brave figure guards the city's 
front, that art is the true minister of life ? Its 
noblest conceptions rise from events which 
have moral grandeur in them ; from illumined 
moments, when some soul has reached its 
highest exaltation. Seeing that they are 
beautiful, it keeps them so forevermore. 

And yet, art does not create beauty, but 
only serves it. The gleam of a sword, the 
bright colors of a flag carried forward with the 
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advancing line, the depths of eyes "with the 
flame of battle in them," are true artistic 
inspirations ; but they inspire only because 
they have a meaning, visible not to sight but 
to insight. 

The soldier in battle does not, consciously, 
arrange dramatic situations. When John A. 
Logan, summoned of destiny, rode along 
those bleeding lines, beautiful in the deep 
sense that makes the heroic always beautiful, 
he little thought of the banners that wave for 
him today. Goethe declared that genius could 
always be known by its doing first the duty 
that was nearest. The Greeks believed that 
ships steered by the gods always came to port ; 
but a truer knowledge counts upon the practi- 
cal skill and courage of the man at the helm. 

That day at Atlanta had none of the roman- 
tic surroundings which give artificial renown 
to battlefields. No pyramids, hiding the grim 
secrets of the centuries, looked down upon 
them. It was not Lodi, where a general could 
dash across a bridge to victory. There were 
no narrow paths to glory. It was breast-to- 
breast fighting, such as seldom comes in any 
war ; a confused mass, struggling against an 
enemy that was everywhere. And in the 
midst of them was Logan — chief, not because 
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of his epaulets, but because the command had 
fallen on one who knew what to do and could 
not breathe until it was done. 

He is past all flattery. Shall we call him 
brave ? Others have worn that crimson badge. 
Great men become types. The people single 
them out with the ready common sense which 
belongs to no man, but to all men. Whatever 
is heroic they can make classic. Logan is Our 
Great Volunteer. So they have named him, 
and so he will be known when we are forgot- 
ten. His place in the war is secure. The 
chroniclers of the future will write of him as 
Froissart did of the knights and heroes of 
mediaeval times. It is, and will be always, a 
glorious story. 

The profession of arms is an inspiring one. 
There is a luster upon it which, in every 
age, has attracted chivalric spirits and made 
them happy to be its ornaments and its exem- 
plars. The scholar, whether in business, in 
politics, or in war, is almost always superior 
to his untrained rival. Grant and Sherman 
and Sheridan illustrate the advantage which a 
country possesses that has in its service men 
instructed in military knowledge. But a puis- 
sant nation, such as came into the meditations 
of John Milton, when it rouses itself from 
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sleep, vaults over scholastic rules, and puts men 
into its ranks, little regarding the methods 
which are taught in schools. Science has 
always found its way into columns that move 
forward. Caesar and Marlborough and Fred- 
erick were great commanders ; but those who 
read with seeing eyes perceive that generals 
only lead men, and that battles, however 
planned, are usually determined by the plain 
courage of the rank and file. 

In calling him The Great Volunteer, we have, 
unwittingly, done injustice to Logan. He was 
not a mere fighter. He had the rare genius of 
leadership. Ask those who served with him, 
and they will answer: "Men whom Logan led 
never turned back." Only a comprehensive 
mind can take events as they come and mold 
them to its will, as if they had been ordered 
in advance. Regiment, Brigade, Division, 
Corps, Army — these are the steps he took, 
and never tripped nor faltered. 

The real proof of genius is the manner in 
which high responsibilities are met. Abraham 
Lincoln, in the school of Sangamon, was hardly 
a prophecy of him who became the foremost 
man of all this world. Galena and Appomat- 
tox are wide apart ; but Grant spanned them. 
The law of growth rules, and only those who 
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can rise to occasion are great. Measure Logan 
by this unfailing test, and he becomes colos- 
sal. Emerson tells, in a familiar line, how 
Michael Angelo "wrought in sad sincerity;" 
but so in truth does every man who, in the 
stress of duty, builds domes or carves statues 
or fights battles. 

Let us see Logan under the light that reveals 
motives and acts. The summons that came, 
in the spring of i86i, found us, as such a 
summons always does, unprepared. Peace is 
never quite ready for war. It was the month 
of flowers, 

" When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, 
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything." 

The seed was waiting to be dropped into the 
earth; the sun, swinging round to the north, 
was calling every field and farm to the oft 
repeated, but never comprehended, mystery of 
a new birth. The blow fell while we were 
welcoming the buttercups ; and it gave such a 
hurt as we never felt before. It was cruel 
beyond all our imaginings, for it seemed to 
write Failure as the end of everything for 
which we had hoped. Thus it touched our 
pride as well as our affections. More than 
all, it brought the deepest grief to those 



who were best able to appreciate its latent 
meanings. 

John A. Logan, only thirty-five years of age, 
was already a striking figure in our national 
politics. He sat in the house of representa- 
tives, that body which touches the people at 
every point, and in it he was a tribune. Him- 
self triumphantly reelected the preceding 
autumn, he had seen his party beaten, his 
adored leader, Douglas, defeated, and — what 
to him was infinitely worse — his country hope- 
lessly drifting into civil war. In those sad days 
every heart had its own sorrow. No one can 
doubt that he remembered, as true men do, 
his party ties ; the friends who had been so 
stanch ; his boyhood service in the war with 
Mexico ; and those nameless tender affections 
which link strong natures to the scenes of 
childhood. Mayhap, too, he thought of a 
future overcast and clouded, of shattered 
hopes, and plans that never could be realized. 
Then came the test. John A. Logan was, in 
the heart of him, gold. Out of the crucible 
the metal flowed ; melted, indeed, but melted 
into fineness. He was not the man to cower 
before any responsibility, for in his veins was 
that rich Celtic blood which makes the reso 
lute, onward character. 
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"O well for him whose will is strong ! 
He suffers, but he will not suffer long ; 
He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong." 

Logan cut the knot, as brave men do. He 
went into the war before he had a legal right, 
and fought at Bull Run under no appointment 
but that of his own undaunted heart. On that 
ill-starred day grave statesmen were ponder- 
ing at the Capitol, as they had never pondered 
before. Doubtless the record of Congress 
shows that Logan was absent without leave. 
But out beyond the Potomac he was fighting, 
musket in hand, in the ranks of the fated army 
of the Union. He had deserted the house to 
be a volunteer for the war. They tell of him 
yet, as he pressed forward through the smoke, 
in the silk hat he had forgotten to change, but 
which never became him so much as when it 
towered that day over his swarthy face, and 
those eyes which were, indeed, the windows 
of his soul. 

After Bull Run he went back to his home in 
southern Illinois, facing friend and foe alike, 
with the defiant note which told them — what 
they already knew — that, come what might, he 
was for the Union and the war. That day he 
conquered "Egypt." Everywhere he sowed 
the words that Douglas had uttered: "There 
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can be but two parties, patriots and traitors," 
Then came the regiment he raised, and, after 
that, in a brave, orderly sequence, Belmont, 
Donelson, Corinth, Vicksburg, Atlanta, and — 

PEACE, 

Something, perhaps, I ought to say of his 
nature as a man ; the nature that ruled him, as 
temperament always does, in field, in camp, 
and in senate. He was not easily controlled. 
There was iron in his blood ; and there was 
fire, too, which, when he was aroused, blazed 
into a consuming wrath. But this is his 
glory : the self-willed, dominant temper al- 
ways yielded submissively to the stronger 
spirit of patriotism. 

Take one or two examples, of the many, 
which illustrate this sublime characteristic. 
When Logan had fought the battle of Atlanta 
and saved a day that was lost ; when he had 
shown the consummate qualities of a great 
leader, he thought, and had a right to think, 
he might keep what he had won — the com- 
mand of an army that loved him. For less 
than he had done Napoleon made men mar- 
shals of the empire, and bade them be the 
companions of Davout and Ney and Mas- 
sena. But it was not to be. The Army of 
the Tennessee was given to another ; and 
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Logan went back to his corps, making no 
sign. 

" My nature is subdued 
To what it works in," 

wrote Shakespeare, in that sonnet which, critics 
say, revealed his inmost heart. No words can 
more truly show us Logan's heart ; for all he 
did, or hoped, or aspired to was subdued by 
one master passion, his country. 

Later, when the war was almost over and 
the inevitable triumph was plainly visible, there 
came to him an opportunity which would have 
been a trial and a temptation to most men. 
But it was not to him. Grant sent him to 
relieve Thomas, and, in doing so, gave notice 
to all the world that Logan was fit for high 
command. It was one of the most picturesque 
situations of the war. The Army of the Poto- 
mac was holding the Confederacy by the 
throat, while Sherman, marching to the sea, was 
cutting all its veins and arteries. Meanwhile, 
Thomas, with beleaguered Nashville at his 
back, was making ready, slowly but surely, for 
the blow that should kill. Grant, the Imper- 
turbable, watching the movements of the 
armies, was, for once, impatient, and could 
wait no longer. He called for his Thunder- 
bolt, and sent Logan to make the fight. I 
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could name men, with stars on their shoulders, 
who would have seized that opportunity to 
humiliate the brave Virginian whom men called 
The Rock of Chickamauga. He, like Logan, 
had become a type. He was a synonym for 
enduring courage which stays forever in its 
place. 

But Logan, hastening to the field where 
Thomas and Hood were preparing for their 
last grapple, stopped at Louisville ; not because 
it was best for his own fortunes, but because 
it was right. He, who would have flown to 
any place where danger lay, halted at that 
supreme moment. He ruled his own soul ; 
and his conduct shines with a great light when 
we read, in Sherman's Memoirs, that less than 
six months before, after the death of McPher- 
son, Thomas — conscientiously, no doubt — 
remonstrated warmly against giving the com- 
mand of the Army of the Tennessee to 
Logan. The day Logan halted on his way to 
Nashville brought him the noblest revenge 
that ever one brave man had over another. In 
his pocket was the order which gave him the 
right to supersede the general who had said 
he ought not to command the Army of the 
Tennessee. It is like some story of old 
romance. Both now are gone. Their armies 
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will never camp again, but the nation loves 
and honors the two men who were thus drawn 
together in those last great days. The world 
will long remember that brave deed when 
Logan stopped at Louisville and left Thomas 
to go forward, in his own way, to a victory 
which was like Cromwell's Crowning Mercy. 

This day is dedicated to Logan as a soldier 
He won it from the calendar and made it his 
own. But, in the midst of all its pageantry, 
let us not forget that he was a statesman in the 
most trying times of our history. It is not 
for me, at such a moment, to discuss any 
question of party opinion. Logan was a man 
of positive views ; plain, direct, and uncom- 
promising. For what he believed to be right 
he was as fearless in the senate as on the field. 
He was for freedom, and for all those great 
amendments to the Constitution that made 
freedom organic in this nation ; he was for 
equality before the law ; he was for the com- 
mon soldier who had felt the wound, which is 
the soldier's best decoration ; he was for the 
national honor on land and sea ; for the army 
and navy, and for force, if need be, to defend 
every right which ought to be recognized with- 
out force. 

He loved Illinois, and Illinois loved him — 
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the son she had nursed in her own cradle. He 
was loyal to her and faithful to the uttermost ; 
but he believed, as this great state has always 
believed, that "the soil of Illinois is the soil 
of the United States." 

It is little to say that he was honest. Through 
all his great career he went unscathed, and no 
man ever whispered in his ear a thought of 
personal gain. If anyone had ventured, he 
would have seen, in that flashing eye, such a 
warning as made the slave, sent to kill Caius 
Marius, fly quaking from the presence of him 
who had been consul. 

If we listen, we shall hear an echo of all we 
do today. The people, everywhere, are think- 
ing of him, because he always thought of 
them. It is an old lesson, and a good lesson. 
We never needed it more than now. If he 
were alive, what voice would ring like his for 
civic honor ? What form would lead like his 
the nation, the state, and the city ? Nothing 
was too great, nothing too small, if only it 
were right, for him to espouse. To all the 
duties of peace he brought the same brave 
determination that made him great in war. 

He, more than any other, created the Grand 
Army of the Republic — that organization 
which makes us remember what we are prone 



to forget. Here his form will sleep forever, 
guarded by them and by those who follow 
them. I greet you, comrades, who now again 
attest your fealty to him and to the nation 
for whose honor you so often followed him to 
victory. 

It was he who gave us the sweet observance 
of Memorial Day. Only a poet could have 
thought it ; only a poet could have made it 
come true. It is, beyond all others, our dear- 
est holiday; our festival of memory, love, and 
beauty. We shall keep it forever, with all the 
flowers that grow upon prairies and in gardens 
and on mountain sides. And there will be 
tears. 

Is it not something to remember, and to be 
proud of, that, in this great ceremony, those 
who followed another flag have come to pay 
their tribute to the Citizen -Soldier ? Men of 
the South, the Grand Army welcomes you ; the 
Loyal Legion welcomes you ; Illinois welcomes 
you ; and all the North greets you with an 
open hand. Every soldier is thankful that he 
has lived to behold such omens of the future. 
Side by side we march today, and all men see 
at last how well blue and gray become each 
other, when, together, they bear the flag of 
union, liberty, and peace. 
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Here we make a sacred place. Here we 
consecrate a name already consecrated in our 
bravest annals. We give the statue to the 
world, in presence of the wife he loved and 
honored, and whom we love and honor. No 
friend was ever so true and devoted as this 
wife of his youth, who became the wife of his 
fame. She lives in the proud and tender 
memory of days that cannot return. This is 
to be their everlasting resting-place ; and here 
generations will bow reverently by the dust of 
those whom God joined together. Their chil- 
dren and their children's children learn in all 
these majestic rites how great a name they 
bear. 

Illinois has kept her trust. This great com- 
monwealth hails today the noble image she 
has carried in her heart so long. It is worthy 
of her, worthy of him who wrought it, and 
worthy of him whose features it embodies 
He is not ours alone ; but yet we claim him 
first. In coming years, the throngs that crowd 
the avenue will see a silent figure always on 
duty. They will know — and all the world 
will know — it is Logan. 



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The Parade 



Eight platoons of police, ninety-six men ; Lieutenant 
William Cudmore 

MAJOR GENERAL JOHN R. BROOKE, 

Commanding 

MAJOR EDWARD C. YOUNG, I. N. G., 
Chief of Staff 

PERSONAL STAFF 

Captain W. V. Richards, i6th Infantry, 
Aid-de-camp 

Captain A. G. C. Quay, Assistant Quartermaster, 
Aid-de-camp 

First Lieutenant James T. Dean, 14th Infantry, 
Aid-de-camp 

department staff 

Colonel Merritt Barber, 

Assistant Adjutant General 

Colonel James G. C. Lee, 

Assistant Quartermaster General 

Colonel George W. Candee, 

Assistant Paymaster General 

Lieutenant Colonel Albert Hartsuff, 
Deputy Surgeon General 

Major George E. Pond, 

Quartermaster 

Captain Oskaloosa M. Smith, 

Commissary of Subsistence 

First Lieutenant Joseph E. Maxfield, 
Signal Corps 

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ACTIVE AIDS 

First Lieutenant Hugh T. Reed, U. S. A. 
Second Lieutenant Roy B. Harper, U. S. A. 
Lieutenant M. J. Foreman, L N. G. 
Lieutenant J. R, McAndrews, L N, G. 
Lieutenant Leo Wampold, L N. G. 
Lieutenant E. C. Butler, L N. G. 
Lieutenant Archibald Watt, L N. G. 
Amos Pettibone 
Frank W. Campbell 



HONORARY AIDS 



General M. R. M. Wallace 
General C. S. Bentley 
Colonel W. L. Barnum 
Colonel Freeman Conner 
Colonel Douglas Hopeman 
Colonel C, R. E. Koch 
Colonel J. Mason Loomis 
Colonel S. H. Fuller 
Major William E. Furness 
Major C. E. Hambleton 
Captain A. C. McAuley 
Captain T. E. Milchrist 
Captain I. P. Rumsey 
Captain Charles F. Smith 
Captain James McElroy 
Captain Holmes Hoge 



Captain D. H. Gile 
Arthur Dixon 
H. V. Freeman 
David P. Jones 
D. H. Kochersperger 
Frank A. Johnston 
George V. H. Moseley 
George C. Ball 
Edwin A. Potter 
H. R. Pearson 
William D. Fullerton 
Robert D. Foote 
Walter H. Chamberlain 
Philip S. Post 
Robert P. Walker 
R. T. Perry 



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FIRST DIVISION 

Grand Army of the Republic 

Band 

U. S. Grant Post No. 28, G. A. R. (General Logan's Post), 

escorting the Commander-in-chief ; Z. R. 

WiNSLOW, Commander ; 200 men 

THADDEUS S. CLARKSON, 

Commander-in-chief Grand Army of the Republic, 

Marshal of the Veteran Division 

Charles E. Burmeister, Adjutant General 
Colonel A. J. Burbank, Quartermaster General 
J. Gary Winans, Senior Aid-de-camp 



AIDS 



John A. Pierce 
H. Waldo Howe 
W. R. Bradley 
L. B. Coupland 
F. S. Capron 
C. J. Souter 
C. E. Offield 
Fred. Ebersold 
C. F. Fairbank 
H. S. Deitrich 
A. H. McCrackin 
J. J. Ryan 
A. J. Brachtendorf 
C. B. Wilson 



H. C. Cook 
C. H. Tobbetts 
W. D. Mills 
M. D. Birge 
W. P. Rend 
C. E. Vaughan 
Martin Conrad 
L. W. Campbell 
H. D. Fulton 
W. H. Bean 
James Marshall 
H. P. Barnum 
H. H. Gage 
C. F. Matteson 



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J. L. Manning 
W. W. Bell 
W. H. Rose 
C. B. Kimball 
H. F. Garry 
Charles Fleetwood 
J. M. Vernon 
John McLarin 
J. J. Healy 
A, P. Camp 
M. W. Phalen 
G. W. Grover 
J. N. VanOsdel 
J. B. Mark 
Charles F. Barnes 



Wm. B. Reeber 
E. Kirk, Jr. 
J. S. McCleland 
Kirk Hawes 
R, B. Chappe 
J. H. Wood 
A. F. Walcott 
J. G. King 
J. G. Everest 
Riley Darnell 
H. C. Hoffman 
G. G. Pierce 
James H, Hubbard 
John Ampey 
J. L. Locke 



VETERAN ORGANIZATIONS 



Band. 

Veterans of the 31st Illinois (General Logan's 
Regiment) ; General R. N. Pearson, commanding ; 1 50 
men. 

Veterans of the 19th Illinois Regiment; Captain 
T. N. Beatty, commanding ; 50 men. 

Veterans of the 24th Illinois Regiment ; Lawrence 
Mattern, commanding ; 50 men. 

Veterans of the 57th Illinois Regiment; Nelson 
Flansbury, commanding ; 30 men. 

Battalion of Sons of Veterans, escorting Department 

Commander, Colonel C. R. Clark ; A. L. Guilford, 

Adjutant. First Company — John A. Logan Camp No. 

26, Rockford ; Captain W. H. Countryman. Second 

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Company — Kilpatrick Camp No. i66, Chicago; Abe 
Lincoln Camp No. 29, Chicago ; Captain W. L. Ekvall. 
Third Company — General George A. Custer Camp No. 
6, Chicago; Chicago Camp No. i, Oak Park Camp 
No. 254; Captain W. T. Church. Fourth Company — 
Ellsworth Camp No. 87, South Chicago Camp No. 24, 
Andrew J. Guilford Camp No. 362, Chicago ; Captain 
C. H. Bedell. 

A. L. SCHIMPFF, Department Commander. 

Henry T. Barnum, Senior Vice-Commander. 

D. W. Bunker, Junior Vice-Commander. 

Rev. A. K. Tullis, Chaplain. 

J. R. Corbus, Medical Director. 

C. A. Partridge, Adjutant. 

C. B. Wilson, Quartermaster. 

W. T. Boyd, Chief of Staff. 

H. G. Reeves, Judge Advocate. 

N. N. Coons, Bugler, 

Band. 

Rockford Post No. i, Rockford ; Thomas G. Lawler, 
Past Commander-in-chief, Commander ; 100 men. 

Band. 

George H. Thomas Post No, 5, Chicago ; Bradley 
Dean, Commander ; 250 men. 

Bartelson Post No. 6, Joliet ; Michael Colmer, Com- 
mander ; 50 men. 

General W. D. Hazen Post No. 7, Chicago ; George 
B. Trayes, Commander ; 30 men. 

Potter Post No, 12, Sycamore; Warren F. Peters, 
Commander; 20 men. 

Band. 

Aurora Post No. 100, Aurora ; N. J. Thomas, Com- 
mander; 100 men, 

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Band. 

Stevenson Post No. 30, Springfield ; B. R. Hierony- 
mus. Commander ; 100 men. 

Drum corps. 

George A. Custer Post No. 40, Chicago ; William 
J. Smith, Commander ; 100 men. 

James T. Shields Post No. 45, Chicago ; Miron 
Rhodes, Commander ; 25 men. 

Band. 

Veteran Post No. 49, Elgin ; John S. Dunser, Com- 
mander ; 100 men. 

Drum corps. 

John Brown Post No. 50, Chicago ; Charles Dumond, 
Commander ; 40 men. 

Band. 

Colonel John Bryner Post No. 67, Peoria ; Elliott 
Callendar, Commander. 

Streator Post No. 68, Streator ; S. McFeely, Com- 
mander. 

Band. 

Abraham Lincoln Post No. gi, Chicago ; S. E, Wood, 
Commander. 

Woodstock Post No. 108, Woodstock; Frank E. 
Hanaford, Commander ; 40 men. 

A. R. E. Burnside Post No. 109, South Chicago ; 
George W. Richards, Commander ; 30 men. 

Dunham Post No. 141, Decatur; W. F. Calhoun, 
Commander ; 80 men. 

Band. 

W. T. Sherman Post No. 146, Bloomington ; Guy 
A. Carleton, Commander ; 60 men. 

Seth E. Earle Post No. 156, Ottawa; W. K. Stewart, 
Commander ; 40 men. 

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Hurlbut Post No. 164, Belvidere ; A. C. Fassett, 
Commander ; 60 men. 

Nunda Post No. 226, Nunda ; George Beckley, 
Commander ; 20 men. 

T. W. Sweeney Post No. 275, Barrington ; S. F. 
Elvidge, Commander ; 30 men. 
Band. 

Kilpatrick Post No. 278, Austin ; M. V. B. Coho, 
Commander ; 70 men. 

Merritt Simonds Post No. 283, De Kalb ; D. D. 
Brown, Commander ; 30 men. 
Drum corps, 

James A. Mulligan Post No. 306, Chicago ; James P. 
Costello, Commander ; 60 men 

Waukegan Post No. 374, Waukegan ; G. B. Shats- 
well, Commander ; 75 men. 

General Lewis Blenker Post No. 376, Chicago ; 
George H. E. Lewis, Commander ; 25 men. 

Walter Blanchard Post No. 386, Naperville ; Joseph 
Kochley, Commander ; 40 men. 

E. L. Gooding Post No. 401, Lockport ; Wm. F. 
Wardle, Commander ; 50 men. 
Band. 

Whipple Post No. 414, Kankakee; A. T. Keeble, 
Commander ; 100 men. 

Godfrey Weitzel Post No. 425, Chicago ; Edwin P. 
Mann, Commander ; 50 men. 
Band. 

George H. Meade Post No. 444. Englewood ; W. C. 
Eakins, Commander ; 100 men. 

Winfield Scott Post No. 445. Chicago ; Hermann 
Held, Commander ; 60 men. 
Drum corps. 

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L. H. Drury Post No. 467, Grand Crossing ; H. E. 
Brandenburg, Commander ; 80 men. 

Naper Post No. 468, Downers Grove ; P. S. Rogers, 
Commander; 25 men. 

E. S. Kelly Post No. 513, Wheaton ; John A. 
Dollinger, Commander ; 40 men. 

Drum corps. 

General Silas Casey Post No. 555, Chicago; James 
R. Gillett, Commander ; 40 men. 

Band. 

General W. S. Hancock Post No. 560, Chicago ; 
John H. Colvin, Commander; 100 men. 

Washington Post No. 573, Chicago ; Thomas T. 
Thirsk, Commander ; 75 men. 

Farragut Post No. 602, Chicago; E. P. Murdock, 
Commander ; 60 men. 

Band. 

Phil Sheridan Post No. 615, Oak Park; F. D. 
Thompson, Commander; 100 men. 

Hiram McClintock Post No. 667, LaGrange ; D. A. 
Lyon, Commander; 50 men. 

Wilcox Post No. 668, Chicago ; George E. Wilson, 
Commander ; 30 men. 

Lake Forest Post No. 676, Lake Forest ; Calvin 
Durand, Commander ; 25 men. 

Drum corps. 

Dominick Walter Post No. 701, Chicago; Nicholas 
Stump, Commander ; 30 men. 

America Post No. 708, Chicago ; William E. Win- 
holtz. Commander ; 40 men. 

General Edward Hatch Post No. 713, Chicago; 
Peter Schriener, Commander; 30 men. 

Band. 



Harvey Post No. 724, Harvey ; Albion Patee, Com- 
mander ; 60 men. 

Cumberland Post No. 737, Rogers Park ; C. H. 
Ceperley, Commander ; 40 men. 

Julian White Post No. 740, Chicago ; George C. 
Abbott, Commander ; 40 men. 

Benjamin F. Butler Post No. 754, Irving Park ; 
Oscar L. Barbour, Commander ; 60 men. 

Band. 

Chicago Post No. 770, Chicago ; John H. Miller, 
Commander; 70 men. 

Desplaines Post No. 780, Desplaines ; Albert M. 
Filkins, Commander ; 40 men. 

Band. 

Columbia Post No. 706, Chicago, escorting Con- 
federate Veterans' Battalion ; Major Charles H. McCon- 
nell. Commander ; 130 men. 

Band. 

Camp 8, United Confederate Veterans of Chicago ; 
Colonel George Forrester, Commander ; Theodore Noel, 
President, Vice-Commander ; 200 men. 

Other Grand Army Posts ; J. H. Culvert, Past Com- 
mander of Nebraska, Commander. 

Band. 

General John A. Logan Post No. 540, Evanston, 
escort to visiting posts; John R. Fitch, Commander; 
150 men. 

Burnham Post No. 276, Lowell, Ind. ; John Clark, 
Commander; 100 men. 

Wilcox Post No. 4, Milwaukee ; 50 men. 

Hammond Post, Hammond, Ind. ; 50 men. 

Elkhart Post, Elkhart, Ind. ; 40 men. 

Chicago Union Veterans' Association ; John L. Man- 
ning, Marshal; 150 men. 

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SECOND DIVISION 

United States Troops 

COLONEL JOHN S. POLAND, Commanding 

SEVENTEENTH INFANTRY 

CAPTAINS— 

Lyster M. O'Brien Charles St. J. Chubb 
William P. Rogers James D. Nickerson 
James E. Pilcher 

first lieutenants— 

Edward Chynoweth James H. Frier 
Robert W. Dowdy Lucius L. Durfee 
Charles D. Clay Henry G. Lyon 

William C. Wren 

second lieutenants— 

Benj. F. Hardaway Thomas L, Smith 
David P. Cordray Verling K. Hart 
Dennis M. Michie Alexander T.Ovenshine 
William D. Davis Ira L. Reeves 

Noncommissioned Staff and Band — 24 enlisted men. 
Company A — 46 enlisted men. 
Company B — 47 enlisted men. 
Company C — 49 enlisted men. 
Company D — 46 enlisted men. 
Company E — 45 enlisted men. 
Company F — 47 enlisted men. 
Company G — 51 enlisted men. 
Company H — 50 enlisted men. 

Hospital Corps Detachment, U. S. Army — 3 enlisted 
men. 

Total, 21 officers and 408 enlisted men. 



NINETEENTH INFANTRY 

COLONEL SIMON SNYDER, Commanding 

Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. Hood 
Lieutenant Colonel Clarence E. Bennett 
Major Robert M. O'Reilly 
First Lieutenant Frank McIntyre, Adjutant 
First Lieutenant Evan M. Johnson, Jr., 

Quartermaster 

Band. 

Company A — Captain Charles A. Vernou, First 
Lieutenant Edward P. Lawton. Enlisted men, 51. 

Company B — Captain John G. Leefe, First Lieuten- 
ant Harris L. Roberts, Second Lieutenant Jasper E. 
Brady, Jr. Enlisted men, 53. 

Company C — Captain Charles T. Witherell, Second 
Lieutenant James Ronayne. Enlisted men, 52. 

Company D — Captain Alexander McC. Guard, First 
Lieutenant Samuel A. Smoke, Second Lieutenant George 
H. Steel. Enlisted men, 50. 

Company E — Captain Francis H. French, First 
Lieutenant Arthur B. Foster. Enlisted men, 53. 

Company F — Captain William P. Evans, First 
Lieutenant Benjamin M. Purssell, Second Lieutenant 
John Howard. Enlisted men, 53. 

Company G — Captain Edmund D. Smith, Second 
Lieutenant Frank B. Watson. Enlisted men, 51. 

Company H — Captain Charles B. Hall, Second 
Lieutenant Frederick G. Lawton, Enlisted men, 53. 

Company I — First Lieutenant Edward T. Winston, 
Second Lieutenant Henry E. Fames. 

Company K — -First Lieutenant Woodbridge Geary. 

Total, 28 officers and 443 enlisted men. 
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FOURTH INFANTRY 
COLONEL ROBERT H. HALL, Commanding 

Lieutenant Colonel A. H. Bainbridge 

Major G. S. Carpenter 

Captain William Stephenson 

First Lieutenant G. B. Duncan, Adjutant 

First Lieutenant Charles McQuiston, 

Quartermaster 

Company A — Captain S. A. Wolf. Enlisted men, 50. 

Company B — Captain H. E. Robinson, Second Lieu- 
tenant J. J. Bernard. Enlisted men, 47. 

Company C — Captain L. A. Lovering, First Lieu- 
tenant B. E. Holley, Second Lieutenant William 
Brooke. Enlisted men, 46. 

Company D — Captain Carver Rowland, First Lieu- 
tenant G, E. French, Second Lieutenant R. R. Stogsdall. 
Enlisted men, 53. 

Company E — Captain B. O. Price, First Lieutenant 
F. B. Andrus, Second Lieutenant U. S. Jarvis. Enlisted 
men, 50. 

Company F— Captain G. O. Webster, Second Lieu- 
tenant Daniel Duncan. Enlisted men, 52. 

Company G — Captain E. H. Browne, Second Lieu- 
tenant J. S. Switzer. Enlisted men, 53. 

Company H — Captain J. W. Bubb, Second Lieu- 
tenant J. C. Castner. Enlisted men, 54. 

Total, 29 officers and 434 enlisted men. 
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TWENTY-SECOND INFANTRY 

LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN H. PATTERSON, 

Commanding 

Major William M. Van Horne 

Captain Charles F. Kieffer, Assistant Surgeon 

First Lieutenant Herman Hall, Adjutant 

captains— 

Benjamin C. Lockwood Alfred C. Sharpe 

William H. Kell John J. Crittenden 

Frank B. Jones 

first lieutenants— 

Edward O. C. Ord William M. Swaine 

Henry C. Hodges George J. Godfrey 

George H. Patten Walter L. Taylor 

Tredwell W. Moore Harold L. Jackson 
Wilson Chase 

second lieutenants— 

Robert L. Hamilton Peter W. Davison 

Albert C. Dalton Isaac Newell 

William H. Wassell Frederick W. Lewis 

Detachment Hospital Corps — 5 enlisted men. 

Field Staff and Band — 25 enlisted men. 

Company A — 49 enlisted men. 

Company B — 47 enlisted men. 

Company C — 51 enlisted men. 

Company D — 53 enlisted men. 

Company E — 51 enlisted men. 

Company F — 50 enlisted men. 

Company G — 51 enlisted men. 

Company H — 53 enlisted men. 

Total, 24 officers and 435 enlisted men. 

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FIRST CAVALRY 
MAJOR CHARLES B. VIELE, Commanding 

Troop C — First Lieutenant U. F. Davis, Second 
Lieutenant R. C. Williams. Enlisted men, 48. 

Troop G — Captain R. P. V. Wainright, Second 
Lieutenant W. U. Whitman. Enlisted men, 46. 

THIRD CAVALRY 
MAJOR HENRY WESSELLS, Commanding 

Captain Charles B. Ewing, Assistant Surgeon 
First Lieutenant Parker W. West, Adjutant 

Troop A — Captain James O. Mackay, First Lieu- 
tenant Arthur Thayer, Second Lieutenant C. E, Haw- 
kins. Enlisted men, 44. 

Troop B — -Captain D. H. Boughton, First Lieutenant 
C. A. Hedekin. Enlisted men, 42. 

Troop D — Captain George F. Chase, Second Lieu- 
tenant Kirby Walker. Enlisted men, 42. 

Troop H — Captain G. H. Morgan, Second Lieu- 
tenant O. W. Bell. Enlisted men, 43. 

Troop I — First Lieutenant T. B. Dugan, Second 
Lieutenant John Morrison. Enlisted men, 42. 

Troop K — Captain G. K. Hunter, First Lieutenant 
J. Y. M, Blunt. Enlisted men, 44. 

Total, 22 officers and 331 enlisted men. 
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ARTILLERY 

Second Regiment, Light Battery A — Captain G. S. 
Grimes, First Lieutenant John Ostheim, First Lieutenant 
John Conklin, Jr., Second Lieutenant O. W. B. Farr, 
Second Lieutenant J. L. Nolton. 

Total, 5 officers and 60 enlisted men. 



NAVAL 

CAPTAIN A. B. DAVIS, Commanding 

Crews of the Revenue Cutters " Gresham " and 
" Fessenden." 



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THIRD DIVISION 

Visiting Governors 

GOVERNOR JAMES A. MOUNT Indiana 

STAFF 

Brigadier General James K. Gore, Adjutant General ; 
Brigadier General B.A. Richardson, Quartermaster 
General ; Colonel Charles E. Wilson, Colonel W. 
T. Durbin, Colonel William J. Robie, Colonel 

B. F. Dickson, Colonel Charles Kable, Colonel 
George E. Rockwell, Colonel James R. Marx 
Henry, Colonel A. R. Beardsley, Lieutenant Colonel 
W. J. Henly, Lieutenant Colonel D. A. Coulter, 
Lieutenant Colonel C. C. Schrieder, Lieutenant 
Colonel A. W. Lyon, Lieutenant Colonel S. T. 
Murdock, Lieutenant Colonel R. B. Harrison, 
Lieutenant Colonel W. T. Gott, Lieutenant Colonel 

C, A. Carlisle, Major L. M. Dunlap, Major Hiram 
Havland, Major Sherman Trout, Major R. L. 
Kennedy, Major G. W. Krietenstein, Major L. R. 
Gigniliat, Colonel Harold C. McGrew, Inspector 
General; Lieutenant William T. May, U. S. A, 

GOVERNOR SILAS A. HOLCOMB Nebraska 

STAFF 

Brigadier General P. H. Barry, Chief of Staff ; Major 
Edmon C. Fechet, U.S.A.; Colonel Herko Koster, 
Colonel Walter Moise, Colonel R. Emmett Giffen, 
Surgeon General ; Colonel W. H. Barnes, Colonel 
J. M. Burress, Colonel J. G. Maher, Colonel Fred 
Miller, Colonel Emil Harris. 
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OFFICERS NEBRASKA NATIONAL GUARD— 

Brigadier General C. J. Bills, Colonel William Bischof 
Colonel J. P. Bratt, Lieutenant Colonel G. R. 
Colton, Major G. E. Pitchett, Captain E. H. Tracy, 
Captain J. H. Culver, Captain C. F. Collins, Captain 
G. E. Haase, Captain J. F. Zellinger, Captain C. A. 
Vickers, Lieutenant C. M. Keefer, Standard Bearer 
James Fochet. 

GOVERNOR GEORGE W. ATKINSON 

West Virginia 

STAFF 

General J. M. Appleton, Adjutant General ; General 
Malcolm Jackson, Judge Advocate ; General D. 
Mayer, Surgeon General ; General W. J. Cowden, 
Paymaster General ; Colonel M. Kirkheimer, 
Colonel W. L. Gould, Colonel George Curtin, Lieu- 
tenant Douglas Settle, U. S. A. 

GOVERNOR EDWARD SCOFIELD Wisconsin 

STAFF 

General F. W. Byers, Colonel M. R. Doyon, Colonel 
Harry S. Fuller, Colonel A, L. Kreutzer, Colonel 
W. J. Anderson, Colonel W. H. Patton, Colonel 
W. J. Boyle, Colonel W. C. Brummer, Colonel S, 
W. HoUister, Colonel Hoyt A. Winslow, Colonel 
Arthur C. Keyes, Colonel G. D. Breed, Colonel W. 
C. Gintry, Colonel W. K. Coffin, Colonel S. J. 
Murphy, Jr., Colonel H. H. Coleman, Colonel W. 
A. Brown, Colonel L. W. Stephenson, Colonel W 
H. Young, Colonel George A. Whiting, Colonel 
George W. Wing. 

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FOURTH DIVISION 

Illinois National Guard 

GOVERNOR JOHN R. TANNER, Commanding 

STAFF 

Adjutant General J. N. Reece 
Assistant Adjutant General James B, Smith 
Inspector General J. R. B. Van Cleave 
Inspector Rifle Practice H. S. Deitrich 

Colonel Frank L. Smith 
Colonel W. S. Eden 
Colonel Edwin Nortop 
Colonel W. D. Wiman 
Colonel J. W. Gates 
Colonel R. T, Higgins 
Colonel Randolph Smith 
Colonel Sargent McKnight 
Colonel John Lambert 
Colonel F. H. Smith 
Colonel S. T. Littler 
Colonel H. B. Maxwell 
Colonel W. H. Glasgow 
Colonel C. W, Kopf 
Colonel Joseph Leiter 
Colonel H. M. Hall 
Colonel I. H. Lesem 
Colonel C. E. Bleyer 
Colonel W. M. Crillev 
Major Swift, U. S. A. 



SECOND BRIGADE 

BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES H. BARCLAY, 
Commanding 

STAFF 

Lieutenant Colonel Frank L. Hatch 
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Davis, Jr. 
Lieutenant Colonel George M. S. Kelly 
Lieutenant Colonel William F. Dose 
Major George N. Kreider 
Captain Lincoln DuBoies 
Captain John H. McCreery 
First Lieutenant Robert B. Loose 
First Lieutenant John A. Orendorff 



FOURTH INFANTRY 

LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN B. WASHBURN 
Commanding 

STAFF 

Major Thomas McCord, Surgeon 
Captain H. S, Parker, Adjutant 
Captain B. F, Coop, Assistant Surgeon 
Captain G. H. Damron, Inspector 
Captain John E. McNutt, Chaplain 
First Lieutenant Albert Snyder, 

Quartermaster 

Band and drum corps. 



first battalion 

Major Louis E. Bennett 

First Lieutenant F. L. Reed, Adjutant 

Company A, Areola — Captain Edward A. Elliott, 
First Lieutenant Joseph B. Barricklow, Second Lieu- 
tenant Rice J. Moore. 

Company B, Newton — Captain E. Wood Hirsch, 
First Lieutenant Wm. H. Hollowell, Second Lieutenant 
Lyman Harris. 

Company C, Carbondale — Captain Eugene A. Barton, 
First Lieutenant Frank L. London, Second Lieutenant 
Frank H. Feeter. 

Company D, Belleville — Captain Eddy P. Rogers, 
First Lieutenant Charles F. Krebs, Second Lieutenant 
Ferdinand J. Schrader. 

SECOND BATTALION 

Major S. A. D. McWilliams 

First Lieutenant L. B. Washburn, Adjutant 

Company E, Mattoon — Captain Charles E. Rudy, 
First Lieutenant Frank E. Norwell, Second Lieutenant 
Richard L. Wright. 

Company F, Mount Vernon — Captain Neil P. Pavey, 
First Lieutenant Edmund Duffer, Second Lieutenant 
Perl Legge. 

Company G, Effingham — Captain Claude E. Ryman, 
First Lieutenant John Berry, Second Lieutenant George 
E. Johnson. 

Company H, Paris — Captain William H. Slanker, 
First Lieutenant William H. Barr, Second Lieutenant 
William N. Piper. 

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third battalion 

Captain Samuel S. Houston 

First Lieutenant Harry J. White, Adjutant 

Company I, Vandalia — Second Lieutenant Louis B. 
Washburn. 

Company K, Centralia — Captain George B. Sherwin, 
First Lieutenant A. S. Brewer. 

Company L, Olney — Captain Frank Muench, First 
Lieutenant Isaac Wilson, Second Lieutenant RoUa 
Hensley. 

Company M, Champaign — Captain William R. 
Courtney, First Lieutenant Jasper R. Prater, Second 
Lieutenant Edwin B. Ellis, 

Total, 49 officers and 650 enlisted men. 

FIFTH INFANTRY 
COLONEL JAMES S. CULVER, Commanding 

STAFF 

Lieutenant Colonel Frank P. Wells 
Major John C. Cabanis 
Major Fred B. Nichols 
Major Walter Colladay 
Major Milton R. Keeley, Surgeon 
Captain Theodore Ewert, Adjutant 
Captain Charles T. Orner, Assistant Surgeon 
Captain Harry M. Smith, L R. P. 
Captain W. W. Weedon, Chaplain 
Captain W. Lee Capps, Quartermaster 
First Lieutenant R. H. Abbott, 

Adjutant First Battalion 
First Lieutenant Alfred L. Castle, 

Adjutant Second Battalion 
First Lieutenant A. J. Gallagher, 

Adjutant Third Battalion 

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Company A, Pittsfield — Captain William C. Ware, 
First Lieutenaut Harry B. Hatch, Second Lieutenant 
V. C. Perkenpaugh. 

Company B, Taylorville — Captain Charles A. Parish, 
First Lieutenant Mark F. Fulton, Second Lieutenant 
Clifton G. Magner. 

Company C, Springfield — Captain Michael F. 
O'Brien, First Lieutenant Frank H. Hamilton, Second 
Lieutenant Noble F. Barnum. 

Company D, Bloomington — Captain Edward Y. 
Miller, First Lieutenant Harvey A. Waltz, Second 
Lieutenant Ellroy Bowman. 

Company E, Petersburg — Captain James C. Walters, 
Second Lieutenant Albert F. Speaker. 

Company F, Quincy — Captain Harry D. Blasland, 
First Lieutenant Henry L. Whipple, Second Lieutenant 
John McLellan. 

Company G, Pekin — Captain Eugene L. Conklin, 
First Lieutenant Edward H. Mullen, Second Lieutenant 
William W. Sellers. 

Company H, Decatur — Captain J. Frank Cassel, 
Second Lieutenant Louis G. Chandler. 

Company I, Jacksonville — Captain Ed. C, Vickery, 
First Lieutenant John H. McDonnell, Second Lieutenant 
William D. Doying. 

Company J, Delavan — Captain James E. Watkins, 
First Lieutenant Clarence H. Ball, Second Lieutenant 
William T. Dickson. 

Company L, Peoria — Captain Edward H. Couch, 
First Lieutenant Edward L. Frabe, Second Lieutenant 
Frank R, Pacey. 

Company M, Canton — Captain Louis H. Gillett, 
First Lieutenant Bernard H. Taylor, Second Lieutenant 
Frank D. Tanquary. 

Total, 48 officers and 700 enlisted men. 
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FIRST BRIGADE 

BRIGADIER GENERAL HARRIS A. WHEELER, 
Commanding 

STAFF 

First Lieutenant Willis Counselman 
First Lieutenant Gilbert M. Weeks 
Lieutenant Colonel William N. Pelouze 
Lieutenant Colonel Leroy T. Steward 
Lieutenant Colonel John Milton Oliver 
Lieutenant Colonel Frank H. Ray 
Lieutenant Colonel James E. Etheridge 
Major Joseph H. Barnett 
Major R. G. Clarke 



FIRST INFANTRY 
COLONEL HENRY L. TURNER, Commanding 

STAFF 

Lieutenant Colonel George V. Lauman 

Major Joseph B. Sanborn 

Major Edgar B. Tolman 

Major James H. Eddy, Jr. 

Captain H. W. Thomas 

Captain William G. Willard 

Captain Edwin J. Wight 

Captain William L, DeRemer 

Captain Adolphus L. Bell 

First Lieutenant B. F. Patrick, Jr. 

First Lieutenant Willis J. Wells 

First Lieutenant William J. Sanderson 

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Bugle and drum corps. 

Company A — Captain Taylor E. Brown, First Lieu- 
tenant James Miles, Second Lieutenant Edward Davis. 

Company B — Captain Walter H. McComb, First 
Lieutenant Charles H. Errington, Second Lieutenant 
Frederick B. Hart. 

Company C — Captain Anson L. Bolte, First Lieu- 
tenant Everett W. Peckham, Second Lieutenant Dorrell 
McGowan. 

Company D — Captain Edward J. Dimmick, First 
Lieutenant William J. Birge, Second Lieutenant Joseph 
C. Pollock. 

Company E — Captain William F. Knoch, First 
Lieutenant Edgar C. Sturges, Second Lieutenant Frank 
L. Cheney. 

Company F — Captain Oliver D. Steele, First Lieu- 
tenant Adolph J. Rosenthal, Second Lieutenant Arthur 
M. Chamberlin. 

Company H — Captain Wallace H. Wigham, First 
Lieutenant Charles H. Warren, Jr. ; Second Lieutenant 
John M. Curran. 

Company I — Captain Charles B. Sandham, First 
Lieutenant William H. Chenoweth, Jr., Second Lieu- 
tenant David P. Barrett. 

Company K — Captain Thomas W. Cole, First Lieu- 
tenant Barnard J. Baumer, Second Lieutenant Benjamin 
J. Moore. 

Company L — Captain Alexander M. Daniels, First 
Lieutenant William C. Gibhardt, Second Lieutenant 
Bruce P. Barney. 

Company M — Captain Edward H. Switzer, First 
Lieutenant Francis B. Laramie, Second Lieutenant 
Percy C. World. 

Total, 49 officers and 750 enlisted men. 
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SECOND INFANTRY 
COLONEL GEORGE M. MOULTON. Commanding 

STAFF 

Lieutenant Colonel William D. Hotchkiss 
Major G. Frank Lydston, Surgeon 
Captain Malcom Gunn, Assistant Surgeon 
Captain Stephen B. Thompson, L R. P. 
Captain Frederick W. Laas, Quartermaster 
Captain Horace W. Bolton, Chaplain 
Lieutenant Freeman, Acting Adjutant 

Band. 

Bugle and drum corps. 

FIRST BATTALION 

t 

Major James E. Stewart, Commanding 
First Lieutenant Charles P. Wright, 

Battalion Adjutant 

Company D — Captain William A. Chadwick, Second 
Lieutenant Harry A. Slavick. 

Company B — Captain Frank E. Waska, First Lieu- 
tenant Thomas J. McConologue, Second Lieutenant 
Chesley R. Perry. 

Company A — Captain Ossian C. Van Zandt, First 
Lieutenant John Bauder, Second Lieutenant Edward L. 
Canfield. 

Company C — Captain Thomas I. Mair, First Lieu- 
tenant Herbert E. Powell, Second Lieutenant Andrew 
E. Paulsen. 

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SECOND BATTALION 

Major William P. Dusenberry, Commanding 
First Lieutenant John W. McConnell, 

Battalion Adjutant 

Company H — Captain John J. Garrity, First Lieu- 
tenant Elmer E. Beatty, Second Lieutenant Walter J. 
Durand. 

Company E — Captain William W. Tompkins, First 
Lieutenant Frank W. Mechener, Second Lieutenant 
Henry Nussbaumer. 

Company F — Captain James H. Stansfield, Second 
Lieutenant Bernard J. Burns. 

Company G — Captain Willis McFeely, First Lieu- 
tenant John R. Mayeski, Second Lieutenant Jesse S. 
Garwood. 

THIRD battalion 

Major Holman G. Purinton, Commanding 
First Lieutenant Bestor G. Brown, 

Battalion Adjutant 

Company K — Captain Albin A. Benning, First Lieu- 
tenant Henry J. Freeman, Second Lieutenant Alfred 
Leury. 

Company L — Captain Gordon H. Quinn, First Lieu- 
tenant Clarence C. Bartlett, Second Lieutenant John 
W. Swatek. 

Company I — Captain D. Milton Jones, First Lieu- 
tenant George M. Martin, Second Lieutenant Robert 
E. Orr. 

Company M — Captain John McFadden, First Lieu- 
tenant Frederick E. Koehler, Second Lieutenant Andrew 
E. Ericson, 

Total, 33 officers and 823 enlisted men. 
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SEVENTH INFANTRY 
COLONEL MARCUS KAVANAGH, Commanding 

STAFF 

Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Moriarity 

Major George Meehan 

Major Garrett J. Carroll 

Major Lawrence M. Ennis 

Major Thomas J. Sullivan 

Captain Edward A. Kelly, Chaplain 

Captain G. William Mahoney 

Captain Michael E. Cassidy 

Captain Jeremiah S. Hyland 

Captain Michael H. Hoey 

First Lieutenant Thomas M. Kavanagh 

First Lieutenant John F. Ryan 

First Lieutenant Joseph G. Kirwan 

Band. 

Drum and bugle corps. 

Company A — Captain W. Edward Hoinville, First 
Lieutenant Joseph Moore. 

Company B — Captain Patrick O'Connor, Second 
Lieutenant J. J. Geraghty. 

Company C — Captain Timothy M. Kennedy, Second 
Lieutenant Charles E. Gilbert. 

Company D — Captain Martin Duhig, First Lieu- 
tenant Edward H. White, Second Lieutenant Richard 
Kelleher. 

Company E — Captain Daniel T. Cotter, First Lieu- 
tenant Patrick O. Mahoney, Second Lieutenant Joseph 
Stanton. 

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Company F — Captain J. J. Lisk, First Lieutenant D. 
J. Crowley. 

Company G — Second Lieutenant John T. Stanton. 

Company H — Captain William J. Carroll, First Lieu- 
tenant James L. Malley, Second Lieutenant Stephen D. 
Kelly. 

Company I — Captain Joseph E. G. Ryan, First Lieu- 
tenant John J. Thomas. 

Company K — Captain John T. McCormick, First 
Lieutenant George F. Connolly, Second Lieutenant 
Thomas R. Quinlan. 

Company L — Captain John M. Clasby, First Lieu- 
tenant Harry M. White, Second Lieutenant Maurice 
Holway. 

Company M — Captain James Clark, First Lieu- 
tenant Thomas P. Ryan, Second Lieutenant James 
Connolly. 

Total, 42 officers and 466 enlisted men. 

FIRST BRIGADE SIGNAL CORPS 
CAPTAIN WILLIAM J. LLOYD, Commanding 

NINTH BATTALION 
MAJOR C. BUCKNER, Commanding 

STAFF 

Captain W. A. Jones, Inspector 
Captain J. M. Croker, Surgeon 
Captain J. F. Thomas, Chaplain 
Lieutenant D. M. Jackson, Quartermaster 
Captain J. H. Johnson, Adjutant 
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Band and drum corps. 

Company A — Captain J. S. Marshall, First Lieu- 
tenant T. R. Van Pelt, Second Lieutenant C, Brown. 

Company B — Captain A. Thomas, First Lieutenant 
G. T. Baker, Second Lieutenant G. R. Scott. 

Company C — Captain C. L. Hunt, First Lieutenant 
W. H. Poole, Second Lieutenant Fred Bartlow. 

Company D — Captain R. L. Jackson, First Lieu- 
tenant W. T. Jefferson, Second Lieutenant H. Lane. 

Total, 1 8 officers and 388 enlisted men. 



THIRD BRIGADE 

BRIGADIER GENERAL ANDREW WELCH, 
Commanding 

STAFF 

Lieutenant Colonel Walter S. Frazier 
Lieutenant Colonel Ira C. Copley 
Lieutenant Colonel E. J. Sell 
Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Plain 
Major Charles C. Carter 
Major David A. Belden 
Captain W. S. Campbell 
First Lieutenant L. F. Beach 
First Lieutenant Carl C. Bullock 



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THIRD INFANTRY 
COLONEL FRED BENNETT, Commanding 

STAFF 

Lieutenant Colonel Walter Wildt 

Major Edward J. Sill 

Major F. A. Jackson 

Major Arthur E, Fisher 

Captain John B. Shaw 

Captain George W. Connell 

Captain John R. Hoffman 

Captain W. G. Bowen 

Captain G. W. Connell 

Captain H, B, Smith 

First Lieutenant J. G. McClaughrey 

Band. 

Bugle and drum corps. 

Company A, Decatur — Captain J. N. St. Clair, First 
Lieutenant Frank Beeth, Second Lieutenant Le Roy 
Hornbeck.- 

Company B, Joliet — Captain Fred W. Pearson, 
First Lieutenant Alexander B. Hay, Second Lieutenant 
William D. Evans. 

Company C, Ottawa — Captain Sidney R. Blanchard, 
First Lieutenant Harry H. Hardin, Second Lieutenant 
Charles L. Gapin. 

Company D, Aurora — Captain John L. Graves, First 
Lieutenant Fred L. Thatcher, Second Lieutenant 
Adolph Peterson. 

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Company E, Elgin — Captain Joseph B. Claughey, 
First Lieutenant B. E. Gould, Second Lieutenant Jacob 
Bodee. 

Company F, Pontiac — Captain A.J. Reno, First Lieu- 
tenant L. F. Strawn, Second Lieutenant G. F. Whitson. 

Company G, Woodstock — Captain William E. 
Eichelberger, First Lieutenant Horatio W. Wright, 
Second Lieutenant Owen G. Mead. 

Company H, Rockford — Captain William H. 
Brogunier, First Lieutenant C. E. Almond, Second 
Lieutenant W. H. Sarver. 

Company I, Aurora — Captain Charles Greene, First 
Lieutenant William Kline, Second Lieutenant Albert 
Lindsey. 

Company K, Rockford — First Lieutenant J. A. 
Ruggles, Second Lieutenant E. E. Leonard. 

Company L, Kankakee — Captain Enos A. Smith, 
First Lieutenant E. F. Schneider, Second Lieutenant 
George Tronjo. 

Company M, Rochelle — Captain Edward A. Ward, 
First Lieutenant George W. Dicus, Second Lieutenant 
William F. Hackett. 

Total, 45 officers and 750 enlisted men. 



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SIXTH INFANTRY 
COLONEL D. JACK FOSTER, Commanding 

STAFF 

Lieutenant Colonel Edward Hittilson 

Major William T. Channon 

Major David E. Clarke 

Major William E. Baldwin 

Major Frank Anthony, Surgeon 

Captain John J. Cairns, Adjutant 

Captain Harrison C. Hopper, Assistant Surgeon 

Captain Benjamin Eick, L R. P. 

Captain A. P. Morgan, Chaplain 

Captain John M. Holt, Quartermaster 

First Lieutenant L, R, Gaylord, 

Adjutant First Battalion 
First Lieutenant Fred W. Porter, 

Adjutant Second Battalion 
First Lieutenant Joseph H. Showalter, 

Adjutant Third Battalion 



Company A, Rock Island — Captain William H. 
McConochie, First Lieutenant Luke Hemenway, Second 
Lieutenant George W. Flood. 

Company B, Genesee — Captain John W. Reig, First 
Lieutenant William A. Wanner, Second Lieutenant 
James Hill. 

Company C, Galesburg — Captain Leslie McGirr, 
First Lieutenant Conrad A. Byloff, Second Lieutenant 
Daniel E. Smythe. 

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Company D, Abingdon — Captain Frank W. Latimer, 
First Lieutenant Frank R. Trevor, Second Lieutenant 
Leonidas T. Reagor. 

Company E, Sterling — Captain William F. Lawrie, 
First Lieutenant Codicil B. Dillon, Second Lieutenant 
Frank Wahl. 

Company F, Moline — Captain Frank J. Clendenin, 
First Lieutenant George M. Gould, Second Lieutenant 
Marvin H. Lyon. 

Company G, Dixon— Captain Philip McGrath, First 
Lieutenant Charles E, Frisby, Second Lieutenant Henry 
B. Trowbridge. 

Company H, Monmouth — Captain William W. 
Shields, First Lieutenant Arthur C. Mcintosh, Second 
Lieutenant Ralph F. Herdman. 

Company I, Morrison — Captain William F. Cole- 
baugh, First Lieutenant Edward Lawton, Second Lieu- 
tenant Ernest J. Weaver. 

Company K, La Moille— Captain Albert T. Tour- 
tillott, First Lieutenant Frank E. Dayton, Second Lieu- 
tenaut Elmer E. Geisey. 

Company L, Freeport — Captain Charles B. King, 
First Lieutenant S. H, Ottenhausen, Second Lieutenant 
Harry H. Yount. 

Company M, Galena — Captain Henry G. Geiger, 
First Lieutenant George Licks, Second Lieutenant 
William James. 

Total, 50 officers and 695 enlisted men. 



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CAVAZ/iV 
CAPTAIN PAUL B. LINE, Commanding 

Captain Pierrepont Isham, Adjutant 
Captain William Cuthbertson, 

Assistant Surgeon 

Troop A, Chicago — First Lieutenant T. S. Quincy, 
Second Lieutenant A. N. Francis. 

Troop B, Bloomington — Captain W. P. Butler, First 
Lieutenant George Hill. 

Troop C, Chicago — Captain M, L. C. Funkhauser, 
First Lieutenant F. V. Alsip. 

Total, 9 officers and 135 enlisted men. 



AUTJLLEIiY 

MAJOR ALFRED RUSSELL, Commanding 
Captain J. J. Ealy 

Battery D, Chicago — Captain William Austin, First 
Lieutenant A. Lindman, Second Lieutenant Samuel 
Lawrence. 

Battery D — Captain C. C. Craig, First Lieutenant 
F. C. Henry. 

Total, 7 officers and 131 enlisted men. 



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FIFTH DIVISION 

Uniformed Societies 
knights templar brigade 

R. E. SIR EDWARD C. PACE, Grand Commander 
Knights Templar of Illinois, Marshal 

STAFF 

V. E. Sir James P. Sherwin, D. G. C, 

Chief of Staff 
E. Sir James B. McFatrich, G. S. W., 

Assistant Adjutant General 
E. Sir Frederick C. Winslow, 

Grand Standard Bearer 
E. Sir William L. Orr, 

Grand Captain of the Guard 
R. E. Sir Sylvester O. Spring, P. G. C, A. D. C. 
R. E. Sir Augustus L. Webster, P. G. C, A, D. C. 
R. E. Sir William C, Chaffee, Grand Com- 
mander of Kansas, A. D. C. 

Band. 

Oriental Consistory, S, P. R. S. — Robert M. John- 
son, Commander-in-chief ; loo princes. 

FIRST BATTALION 

E. Sir William Jenkins, Grand Generalissimo, 
Commanding 

E. Sir Samuel S. Dodge, P. C, Dixon No. 21, 
Adjutant 

Band. 

Apollo No. I, Chicago — E. Sir Smythe Crooks, E. 
C. ; 130 sir knights. 

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Peoria No. 3, Peoria — E. Sir David H. Tripp, E. C. 
75 sir knights. 

Joliet No. 4, Joliet — E. Sir Thomas R, Blair, E. C. 
65 sir knights. 

Blaney No. 5, Morris — E. Sir Wilham Sparr, E. C. 
65 sir knights. 

Total, 339. 

SECOND BATTALION 

E. Sir Robert C. Griffith, P. C, Chevalier Bayard 

No. 52, Commanding 

E. Sir Alfred A. Whipple, P. C, El Aksa No. 55, 

Adjutant 

Band. 

Chicago No. 19, Chicago — E. Sir Charles F. Wat- 
kins, E. C. ; 125 sir knights. 

Beaumanoir No. 9, Decatur — E. Sir George S. 
Durfee, E. C. ; 45 sir knights. 

Ottawa No. 10, Ottawa — Sir Clarence Griggs, Gen- 
eralissimo ; 65 sir knights. 

Waukegan No. 12, Waukegan — E. Sir Silas H. 
Brigham, E. C. ; 35 sir knights. 

Crusader No. 17, Rockford— E. Sir Thomas D. 
Reber, E. C. ; 34 sir knights. 

Total, 309. 

THIRD BATTALION 

E. Sir Merritt B. Iott, P. C, Lincoln Park No. 64, 

Commanding 

E. Sir Charles J. de Berard, P. C, St. Elmo No. 65, 

Adjutant 

Band. 

Cyrene No. 23, Centralia — E. Sir Charles C. Davis, 
E. C. ; 45 sir knights. 

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Band. 

Cavalry No. 25, Woodstock — E. Sir Silas H. Calen- 
der, E. C. ; 75 sir knights. 

Bethel No. 36, Elgin — E. Sir Ernest E. Egler, E. C. ; 
35 sir knights. 

Evanston No. 58, Evanston — E. Sir Thomas L. 
Fansler, E. C. ; 55 sir knights. 

Total, 289. 

FOURTH BATTALION 

E. Sir Hamer H. Green, Grand Sword Bearer, 
Commanding 

E. Sir Albert F. Schoch, E. C, Ottawa No. 10, 
Adjutant 

Band. 

Chevalier Bayard No. 52, Chicago — Sir George W. 
Prickett, Generalissimo ; 84 sir knights. 

Englewood No. 59, Englewood — E. Sir William O. 
Budd, E. C. ; no sir knights. 

Band. 

Columbia No. 63, Chicago — E. Sir Phillip H. Mallen, 
E. C. ; 68 sir knights. 

Calumet No. 62, Chicago — E. Sir John A. Mcintosh, 
E. C. ; 48 sir knights. 

Total, 314. 

Montjoie Commandery No. 53, Chicago (mounted) — 
E. Sir Wesley J. Clizbe, Commander ; 50 sir knights. 

RECAPITULATION 

Field and staff officers . . . 16 

Officers and sir knights in line . 1,403 

Total number of musicians . . 133 



Grand total . . . 1,552 
Total number of horses, 66. 
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS BRIGADE 

FIRST REGIMENT OF ILLINOIS, U. R. K. OF P. 

COLONEL THOMAS E. YOUNG, 
Commanding 

STAFF 

Major Henry J. Way, Surgeon 
Captain George W. Miller, Adjutant 
Captain A. E. Carpenter, Quartermaster 
Captain West A. Fuller, Commissary 
Captain William C. Vail, Signal Officer 

OFFICERS FROM GENERAL STAFF— 

Colonel H. P. Caldwell 
Colonel E. Bassler 
Colonel R. L. Crescy 
Colonel C. H. Shields 
Major W. S. Bell 
Major A. H. Michelson 
Major M. C. Keck 
Major C. H . Gushing 
Major D, J. Monahan 
Lieutenant A. Wold 

NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF- 
'S.. E, Evans, Sergeant Major 
K. H. Meinung, Hospital Steward 

Band. 

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FIRST BATTALION 

Major Miles S. Cobb, Commanding 
P. J. O'Hare, Adjutant 

Company No. I — Captain J. C. Hoffman. 
Company No. 2 — Captain Frank Shultz. 
Company No. 5 — Captain William Adderley. 
Company No. 67 — Captain Richard Mazer. 
Total, 116. 

SECOND BATTALION 

Major William J. Morgan, Commanding 
G. W. Hansen, Adjutant 

Company No. 3— Captain G. T. Amos. 
Company No. 12 — Captain William Clancy. 
Company No. 56 — Lieutenant J. Keitzner. 
Company No. 60 — Lieutenant W. W. Stevens. 
Total, 116. 

SEVENTH REGIMENT OF ILLINOIS, 
U. R. K. OF P. 

LIEUTENANT COLONEL GEORGE W. SHOTKA, 
Commanding 

Major C. W. Klinetop 

Captain D. S. Harrington, Adjutant 

Captain J. B. Stevens 

Captain Henry Mertins 

Captain A, F. Rehberg 

Captain Adolph Chaim 

Captain Homer W. Thope 

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NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF— 

Samuel A. Shaw, Sergeant Major 
Charles Hunkler, Quartermastet Sergeant 
Frank P. Irmiter, Color Sergeant 
Peter C. Pauly, Orderly 

Band. 

FIRST BATTALION 

Major J. L. Sugrosser, Commanding 
Michael Rednig, Quartermaster 

Company No. 8i — Captain E. K. Bennington. 
Company No. 82 — Captain H. Weise. 
Company No. 83 — Captain H. C. Frese. 
Company No. 85 — Captain W. H. Stoddert. 
Company No. 88 — Captain S. C. Esendrath. 
Company No. 89 — Captain N. P. Meller. 
Company No. 84 — Captain Phil May, 
Total, 248. 

RECAPITULATION 

Field and staff officers ... 30 

Officers and men in line . . . 486 
Total number of musicians . . 55 



Grand total . . . .571 
Total number of horses, 30. 

RECAPITULATION OF DIVISION 



Field and staff officers 
Officers and men in line 
Total number of musicians 


46 

1,889 

188 


Grand total . 
Total number of horses, 96. 
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2,123 



SIXTH DIVISION 

Chicago Letter Carriers 

CHARLES U. GORDON, Postmaster, Marshal 

John A. Montgomery, Chief of Staff 
Henry C. Smale, Adjutant 

PERSONAL AIDS 

Charles A. Hanna Perry H. Smith 

James McArthur 

AIDS 

Joseph B. Schlossman W. E. Crumbacker 

T. W. Wittier George H. Haggett 

J. T. McGrath James H. McCauley 

George M. Colby P. T. O'Sullivan 

Daniel P. Cahill Albert Jampolis 

Henry Blattner Peter Newton 

Peter Deidrich John Harrington 

John W, Ward John Cheevers 

Band. 

FIRST BATTALION 

General Hermann Lies, Commander 
Company A — Captain J, E. Adams 
Company B — Captain Lawrence LeBron. 
Company C — Captain Fred W. Hartwick. 
Company D — Captain John Jacobson. 

SECOND BATTALION 
William J. Major, Commander 
Company E — Captain Evan Danden, 
Company F — Captain F. J. Crowell 
Company G — Captain Clark M. Stover. 
Company H — Captain F. J. H. Wichman. 

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THIRD BATTALION 

Henry H. Henshaw, Commander 

Company I— Captain W. J. Ryan. 
Company K — Captain James Anderson. 
Company L — Captain J. F. McGrew. 
Company M — Captain R. H. Norton. 
Total, 1,275. 



SEVENTH DIVISION 

United States Juniors 

A. A. LAMBERT, Commanding 

Band. 

Battalion United States Juniors. 

Total, 360. 



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GRAND TOTAL IN PARADE 



Grand Marshal and Staff 

First Division — Grand Army of the Republic 
Second Division — United States Troops . 
Third Division — Governors of States . . 
Fourth Division — Illinois National Guard 
Fifth Division — Uniformed Societies . . 
Sixth Division — Chicago Letter Carriers . 
Seventh Division — Other Military Organizations 



51 

4,500 

2,256 

50 

5.883 
2,123 

1.275 
360 

16,498 



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